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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: scsi drive timing out.
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 16:33:38 GMT
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In article <hastyC64MF1.F94@netcom.com>, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) write :
I think all references to 1742 should read 1542!
> I don't know which scsi adapter your are running :-(
>
> But here is what I know about the adaptec 1742c and my toshiba 538 1.2G (12ms).
>
> I have to leave my disk drive unterminated for 386bsd the 1742c
> terminated.
>
> Also, I disabled all the bios related stuff and left
> the scsi seek device and return right after a seek enabled.
>
> For Dos I have to leave the 1742c unterminated and the scsi
> drive terminated and naturally all the bios related stuff
> enabled.
>
> Weird!!
>
> With the adaptec 1742B none of the above holds true for the store
> checked out my scsi drive with an adaptec 1742B and found no problems.
>
> All this info comes after several talks with my vendor and them
> also playing around with my hardware.
>
> Also, I am using netBSD because the stock kernel will not even boot,
> got around that problem by shutting of my disk drive.
>
> Must say that I feel that I have been baptized by adaptec.
> Currently, happily hacking on 1.2GB + 300MB of disk space.
>
> Good Luck,
> Amancio Hasty
>
>
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