[969] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptec -> NCR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Mon Nov 18 23:29:55 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:22:06 -0800
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: groudier@club-internet.fr
CC: stephen@it.com.au, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961118220631.94A-100000@localhost> (message from
Gerard Roudier on Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:41:57 +0000 (GMT))
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:41:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
For the moment, I did not understand why scsicam_bios_param() may fail
to find the geometry from the partition table when BusLogic specific stuff
is able to succeed.
Have you some explanations of that?
Are such failures ncr specific?
I may have missed something in this thread, but I don't recall saying that
there was a problem with moving from Adaptec or BusLogic to NCR (or anything
else that uses the scsicam routine). Did someone report such a problem?
I assume that the scsicam code would correctly detect the geometry.
The problem would arise when moving from NCR to Adaptec or BusLogic, since
scsicam is unlikely to use one of the 2 translations supported by Adaptec, or
the 3 supported by BusLogic.
Leonard
