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From: tcchang@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw (T.C.Chang)
Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD?
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 09:36:03 GMT
In article <1993Apr5.130105.25114@bradford.ac.uk> T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD) writes:
>From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD)
>Subject: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD?
>Date: 5 Apr 93 13:01:05 GMT
>I recently asked "Which Adaptec ISA devices are supported?" on
>comp.os.386bsd.questions. I obtained the following answer from someone
>at Carnegie Mellon:
>
>> I just bought a 1542C for 386BSD, but unfortunately, it didn't work
>> well with 386BSD. When I hook up a SCSI disk with 1542C, my machine
>> got to be impossible to boot from a SCSI. With 1542B, it all worked
>> well.
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem - or has anyone succeeded in getting
>the 1542C to work with 386bsd. I'm wanting to buy a SCSI card for my PC,
>and all the vendors are pushing the 1542C, but I don't want to buy one
>if I can't use it with 386bsd. (on the other hand if it can be made to
>work, I'd just as soon have the newer card).
>
>Follow-ups directed to comp.os.386bsd.questions.
>--
>Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk
Although the ADAPTEC declares that the 1542C is full competible with 1542B,
but things don't like it!!
The 1542C CAN'T boot 386bsd! Although is works fine with SCO and DOS. We
have tried many times to confirm it, but know nothing why it is.
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