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From: amurai@tama.spec.co.jp (Atsushi Murai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Another Adaptec Question
Message-ID: <7@tama.spec.co.jp>
Date: 16 Aug 92 12:27:57 GMT
References: <1992Aug14.192127.13801@adaptx1.UUCP>
Sender: "Atsushi Murai" <amurai@tama.spec.co.jp>
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In article <1992Aug14.192127.13801@adaptx1.UUCP> neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:

I have another question for handling over a GIGA diske with Adaptec
1542B.  Last month I bought 1542B and before using for 386BSD0.1., I
just check a functionality on Netware 3.11 (Excuse me. I know this
ariticle is not ..but) and Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2 GB Disks. Functionality
is good but it looks like loosing a space about 200MB (above 1Gbyte).
And some guy let me know about this is a known problem of 1542B and
Adaptec will be fixed by new board - 1542C. (Oh well.....)
Now a day, A lot of guys try to run 386BSD with this card without know
this problem!!!

My Question:

  o Is this a hard ware limitaion or a firm ware one ?
  o Is there any upgrade pass from 1542B to 1542C(?) ?
  o When new board is available ?
  o How about 174X for EISA bus ? (normal/extended mode)

# Don't mail to me from out side of Japan, please.
# My Mail address doesn't permit for getting a mail from out side of JAPAN
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Atsushi Murai
System Planning & Engineering co,.