On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> 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.
2.2.0-pre6-ac2 is OK again.
Walter
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