Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 1997 23:38:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Gerard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: Controller trashes FS (what's new) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mike Kilburn wrote: > > > It was my understanding that you must re-format your > > drive when switching SCSI controllers. > > Depends what you're switching from/to. Some cards will deal with > geometries used by others. NCR's for instance can take over after you've > started with an Adaptec, but I don't think you can go the other way. I > wonder if a Buslogic can take over for an NCR...I'm considering trying > that.
Except for boot which depends on vendor BIOS, any scsi board would be able to behave as a NCR drivers, if the geometry was deduced from the partition table with scsicam_bios_params(). Donnot forget you have Linux source code ...
Be carefull if you use a Tekram DC-390 with NCR chip. Such boards do not use the SDMS BIOS but a proprietary one. I would be surprised too much if a disk formatted first under Linux with some non-adaptec geometry would have problem to boot with Tekram NCR based Board.
Gerard.
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