[5193] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: extended translation in aic7xxx driver.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chu)
Sun Nov 22 07:06:06 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:28:14 -0800
From: Kevin Chu <kevin@portal.ca>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
CC: motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch
Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
> The recent update of aic7xxx in 2.0.36 kernel (pre13-pre14 transition) made
> "extended translation ENABLED" the default setting, independed of the BIOS
> setting (which was the default before). It breaks fdisk and LILO on SCSI
> disks formatted with extended translation disabled (see examples on
> http://crds.chemie.unibas.ch/machine/2.0.36pre19/ )
According to the big disk howto
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2) the
only reason to have extended translation is if you're running DOS, and
it recommends avoiding extended translation altogether.
I'm still running 2.0.35, but if extended translation cannot be turned
off in 2.0.36, then it will be broken for me, because I don't use
extended translation (even though I have Win95 on one of my disks).
Kevin
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