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Xref: sserve comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:2499 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1985 Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Looking for suggestions for a SCSI controller Message-ID: <hastyC62x08.Jxs@netcom.com> Keywords: SCSI, 386bsd Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Apr24.165243.10375@sophia.smith.edu> <C62poo.M49@fasttech.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 07:04:55 GMT Lines: 34 In article <C62poo.M49@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes: >In <1993Apr24.165243.10375@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes: > >>I have a new PeeCee running 386bsd (and ms-dog). It is a >>486dx-33/ISA with a vesa local bus. Now I would like to hook up >>two SCSI drives (both Quantum) and a tape drive (Archive). > >>What is a good deal on a SCSI controller? I hear that some ISA >>controllers (adaptec) that use DMA don't work with more than 16 >>meg of ram which would be a Bad Deal. Are there any VL bus >>boards that would work? > I bought an Adaptec 1742c (it uses a setup similar to the BIOS setup to set various features for the adapter), and it couldn't manage to reliably talk to my toshiba 1.2g model 538 disk drive. So I took the combo back to the store and they also couldn't get it to work :-) Under 386bsd, I had no problems in seen my two IDE drives and my scsi 1.2gb disk drive. However, under DOS the only way that I managed to get to see the scsi drive was if I specified on my bios setup no disk drives installed :-) Asked the techie over at the store, to try out the 1742b and voila all the problems disappear at least under DOS. Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming