Hi!
To disable the extended translation is mostly usefull under
the ancient DOS-environment; it just wasn�t made to support
the > 512Mb-barrier.
>From my own experience I�ve found out that changing your
SCSI-card often leaves the disk partially unusable due to
differences in the way the SCSI-card adress the drive;
A lowlevel-format may be an unavoidable step. :_)
Mostly the drive will be able to function correctly if the boot-
sector can be avoided. (I used my ZIP-drive as bootdevice
until I had time to backup and Lowlevel format my harddisk.)
Good Luck!!!
// Henrik J.
Maxim Surdu skrev:
> As I heard there is two different ways to solve this problem
> one to disable DOS > xxxMb translation in SCSI BIOS
> another as you wrote to use linear mode in LILO.
> As for me I use second one ...
>
> At 07:29 15.12.98 -0000, Chris Evans wrote:
> >My problem is that booting from the hard disc gets LI but not LO,
> >i.e. LILO isn't mounting linux. Two people on debian-user
> >suggested I instruct lilo to use linear addressing either by using the
> >lilo -l option or putting "linear" into /etc/lilo.conf. This sounds very
> >promising but I think the way that changing from a dawicontrol (ncr)
> >to the Adaptec 2940U changes the perceived geometry is more
> >serious than this. After booting in rescue mode from the
> >resc1440.bin floppy lilo (with or without linear mode) returns:
> ....skipped.....
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