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2940W, fdisk problem

Post by Thad F. Pec » Mon, 21 Aug 1995 04:00:00



Ok, Ive been following the news postings for several months about
getting an Adaptec 2940W SCSI controller to work under Linux.  I
have downloaded the AIC7XXX patch fro remus.nrl.navy.mil and the
Adaptec 2940 patch from Infomagic.  After I use rawrite to make
the bootdisk I boot up and my SCSI drives are recognized but I cant
get "fdisk" to partition my drive to continue the installation.  I receive
the following error when I give "fdisk" the new partition command "n".

no free sectors available

Infomagic says their patch is only for the Adaptec 2940 not the 2940W.

I would greatly appreciate any help on how I can make this work.

Thanks
Thad Peck

 
 
 
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2940W, fdisk problem

Post by Thad F. Pec » Mon, 21 Aug 1995 04:00:00


Ok, Ive been following the news postings for several months about
getting an Adaptec 2940W SCSI controller to work under Linux.  I
have downloaded the AIC7XXX patch fro remus.nrl.navy.mil and the
Adaptec 2940 patch from Infomagic.  After I use rawrite to make
the bootdisk I boot up and my SCSI drives are recognized but I cant
get "fdisk" to partition my drive to continue the installation.  I receive
the following error when I give "fdisk" the new partition command "n".

no free sectors available

Infomagic says their patch is only for the Adaptec 2940 not the 2940W.

I would greatly appreciate any help on how I can make this work.

Thanks
Thad Peck

 
 
 
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