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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: Booting of dist.fs..nothing
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 16:32:50 GMT
References: <1993Mar24.202700.4562@nic.csu.net>
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I've heard of several people who have 1542Cs...
None of them have been able to get them to work with 386BSD or BSD/386.
Looks like they exercise an incompatability between the B and C :-(
In article <1993Mar24.202700.4562@nic.csu.net>, jtmack@futon.SFSU.EDU () writes:
> My woes:
>
> I have been trying to get 386BSD up for some time now.
> First I found out my controller card was imcompatable...so I got a new one.
> Even with the new card (Adaptec 1542C) when I try to boot from dist.fs the drive
> light just stays on and nothing seems to be kicking in..not even a carriage
> return or the sound of the 3.5 drive reading any information. Presently I have:
>
Guy
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