aic7xxx problem: hd geometry changes

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:27:13 +0100 (MET)


From: Walter Hofmann <snwahofm@mailhub.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>

> You do not mention the status of Extended Translation for
> 2.2.0pre4, but I suppose it was Enabled, and this change
> in translation setting caused the change in geometry.

I didn't check is (and I am not at home right now), but according to the
fdisk output it should be on.

> Now why was the translation setting changed?
> You didnt do this yourself in the card setup?

No. If I boot 2.0.36 everything works again.

> Or you forgot to add a boot option aic7xxx=extended ?

I never added it before.

Now that I see some more linux-kernel messages, there are
several people who complain that the SCSI detection code
for the aic7xxx was broken in pre5. No doubt your problem
has the same cause.

Andries

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