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SubjectRe: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2
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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