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From: scheidel@gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell)
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Subject: Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ?
Followup-To: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Date: 16 Jun 1994 14:39:31 GMT
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) wrote:
: In article <CrDswJ.7qE@cti-software.nl>,
: Pim Zandbergen <pim@cti-software.nl> wrote:
: >The problem is that our BusLogic dealer says "the cards work
: >just fine with SCO and Netware, it must be your ISC driver"
: >and our ISC dealer claims I've got a hardware problem, as the card
: >fails with two different ISC drivers.

: Maybe problem with ISC's drivers. I have a  747S with two SCSI-2 drives and
: a SCSI-1 tape and   have no problem  whatsoever  with accessing  all  three
: devices at the same time.


YET ANOTHER FOLLOWUP:
Buslogic just released technotes on 747s.  seems it locks up on NextOS!

Call Buslogic for 'sloppy mailbox' fix for BIOS.
(I guess they couldn't convince Next to change drivers)


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Michael S. Scheidell                    Florida Datamation, Inc. 
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