Drives With Mixed Partitions; Using Extended Translation; Using Fdisk; Load Asw-1410 V3.0A - Adaptec AHA-1740A Installation Manual

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AHA-1740A/1742A/1744
Drives With Mixed Partitions
Do
not use extended translation on drives formatted with two
or more partitions for different operating systems. Use stand-
ard translation. The sum of the DOS partitions will be less
than 1 Gigabyte. Partitions for UNIX and NetWare can be
la:rger than 1 Gigabyte when using standard translation.
Using Extended Translation
CAUTION
If you have already partitioned a large disk drive with one
translation method, conversion to another method will erase
your data. Be sure to back up your disk drive prior to any
change in the translation method used.
Using fdisk
To install a new disk, or to re-partition an existing disk, use the
fdisk
DOS utility as you normally would. The cylinder size in-
creases to 8 MBytes when you enable extended translation. The
size of the partition you request must therefore be a multiple of
8 MBytes. If you request a partition size that is not a multiple
of 8 MBytes, fdisk will round up to the nearest whole multiple
of8 MBytes.
Load ASW-1410 v3.0a
Load ASW-1410 v3.0a for ASPI support of non-disk peripheral
devices. The ASW-1410 v3.0a is fully compatible with extended
translation in the AHA-1740A/1742A.
1 ATI/USL all"versions, SCO v3.2.4 (or later), ISC v3.0 (or later)
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