In a previous message, Matthias Drochner wrote:
: Excerpts from netbsd: 27-Jan-98 Problems booting from SCSI .. Dominic J
: Hulewicz@inta. (2250*)
: 
: >   Adaptec AHA-2940 BIOS v1.115
: 
: Can you figure out how your disk geometry is translated?
: 63 secs/track is used in most cases, but not necessarily
: by the Adaptec BIOS.
: The easiest way is to use the DOS based "pfdisk" which
: is supposed to be somewhere on ftp.netbsd.org.

Here's the pfdisk output if that helps any:

  pfdisk> # Partition table on device: 0
  geometry 1021 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
  #  ID  First(cyl)  Last(cyl)  Name  # start, length (sectors)
  1   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
  2   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
  3   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
  4 165      0       1007       unkno # 63, 2064321
  # note: first(4): phys=(0,1,1) logical=(0,1,32)
  # note:  last(4): phys=(1023,31,63) logical=(1007,63,32)
  # note: last(4): phys=(1023,31,63) should be (1023,63,32)
  active: 4

I tried Frank's advise and did a "fdisk /mbr", but the same still occurs.
I also tried Manuel's suggestion of removing the Adaptec BIOS "support for
dos drives > 1G", but alas that does not make any difference either.

Any more suggestions ?


	Thanks,
		Dom.
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