Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 05 May 1996 10:28:14 -0500 (CDT) | From | d-seaman@ukans ... | Subject | Re: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2 |
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On Sat, 4 May 1996, Mishelle Bradford wrote:
> > It's a P150 (Tyan Tempest II) with 64MB RAM, a DPT PM2124W Fast/Wide > > SCSI-2 controller, a Fujitsu M2934QA 4GB F/W SCSI-2 drive that's been > > partitioned to have sda1 as a 300-odd MB root partition and sda4 as a > > 32MB swap partition, and a 3c595 Ethercard. > > Swap partitions can only be a max of 16MB in size, last I heard, and there > can be a total of 8 swap partitions.
This is an ANCIENT limit. I have two 32MB paritions running just fine.
> The wide scsi might be problematic too... I don't think Adaptec 2940 wide > is supported, but maybe the DPT PM2124W is.
Yes it is fully supported. I have two wide devices running on my system. Get 1.3.98 for the latest and greatest 2940W drivers.
Derek
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