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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber)
Subject: Re: Elusive SCSI problems (Adaptec 1542C)  <snarl!>
Message-ID: <1993May14.194421.8565@sophia.smith.edu>
Keywords: Adaptec 1542C, Quantum, SCSI, 386bsd
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 19:44:21 GMT
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In article <1993May14.181350.22631@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>Last night I downloaded a program from the Adaptec BBS that can
>>set the bus on/off times.  I twiddled them all around an it had
>>NO effect.
>
>Is this thig repostable?  Sound like we ought to have one living on agate.

I'll check, if it is then I'll put it up.  I also got a
formatting tool which will really do a low level format on a
Quantum (normally they just immediately return saying the format
was complete when nothing was actually done).

>>Given the symptoms, any tech support person is naturally going
>>to point their finger at the SCSI software in 386bsd.  That is
>>about how I feel now too.
>
>If 386BSD's SCSI driver can discriminate between the 1542c and 1542b, then
>there a way to tell them apart and they're not compatable.

It has already been established that the two are slightly
different; mostly compatible but not 100%.  However supposedly
the scsi driver has been fixed to account for the
incompatibility...

-john

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