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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 A (no joke) Message-ID: <wilko.741347118@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 29 Jun 93 09:45:18 GMT References: <209e3p$la8@sun.koblenz.fh-rpl.de> <wilko.740921690@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20n4tnINN2bo@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 28 j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes: >In article <wilko.740921690@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >>marenda@newshost.koblenz.fh-rpl.de (Juergen Marenda) writes: >> >> >>>will the 1542 A ( not B or C ) work with NetBSD ??? >> >>>Someone will give me a 1542 A (defect floppy-controller, but scsi part ok) >>>and i would like to use it for NetBSD. >> >>It will work for 386bsd with the 0.2.3 patchkit. If netbsd took over >>the drivers it will work OK. >> >I've replaced a borrowed 1542B by an 1542A, without having patchkit 0.2.3, >no problem (with Julians SCSI drivers, of course). OK, but the 'old' bootfloppy's still floating around on the original 0.1 distribution sites won't work. Another nice pitfall is that there are bootfloppies that work with the 'A' but don't contain bootblocks that work on the 'A' (took me some time to figure out this one). Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Enterprise voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands