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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!beach.csulb.edu!nic.csu.net!nic.csu.net!nntp Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD? Message-ID: <1993Apr8.161407.4777@nic.csu.net> From: jtmack@marge.sfsu.edu (James T. Mack) Date: 8 Apr 93 16:14:04 PDT References: <1993Apr7.080305.5732@spider.co.uk> Nntp-Posting-Host: marge.sfsu.edu Lines: 32 In article <1993Apr7.080305.5732@spider.co.uk> writes: > In article <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw> tcchang@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw (T.C.Chang) writes: > > 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. > > I installed a 1542C last night. It's not my primary drive, but I *can* boot > off it via the BOOTEASY 1.2 boot partition selector (which allows you to chain > directly to the second disk). I use julian's boot blocks and the kernel > distributed with patchkit 0.2(.1?). My primary drive is IDE. > > I even bumped the DMA transfer speed up to 6.7Mb/s (diagnostics failed at 8.0 > on my system), and first impressions are very satisfactory. > > Mark. But can you boot from a floopy connected to the Adaptec? I can't do anything until I get that initial boot from the dist.fs. Is there anyway someone could put a image of the bootable floppy for the 1542c anywhere. :) It's been 3 mo. and haven't successfully gotten my darn machine to boot. I have Linux up though (not to be comparing the two), but I wanted to run 386bsd and I am sick of reading a million posts a day on comp.os.linux. :) Thanks again. Jim