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From: richk@netcom6.netcom.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
In-Reply-To: bson@moomin.ai.mit.edu's message of 09 May 1994 08:22:34 GMT
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In article <BSON.94May9032234@moomin.ai.mit.edu> bson@moomin.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) writes:

> In article <RICHK.94May6150902@netcom6.netcom.com> richk@netcom6.netcom.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
> 
>  > What SCSI adapter do you use?  My Adaptec 1542 does not have a setting
>  > that allows me to boot any SCSI unit other than 0, and that's my hard
>  > disk.
> 
> You should read the manual that came with your adapter more carefully.
> On page 4-15 my AHA-1540C/1542C User's Guide reads:

Well, I wasn't specific enough about my adapter.  It's an Adaptec
1542B, not a 1542C.

> The 154xB can't, but that's irrelevant since it's quickly becoming
> obsolete, and it doesn't make sense discussing what yesterday's
> firmware used to do.

It's not obsolete as far as I'm concerned.  It still runs all the
drives I need to run, including newer ones, and it still has the best
software support of any SCSI adapter.  It may share these traits with
the 1542C, but I feel no inclination to upgrade yet; but now I know
the 1542C has something the 1542B doesn't.
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                richk@netcom.com
Picture a clever one-liner here...