*BSD News Article 14138


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:10287 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1415
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!uunet!pipex!uknet!uknet!edcastle!spider!raft.spider.co.uk!mark
From: mark@spider.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD?
Message-ID: <1993Apr7.080305.5732@spider.co.uk>
Date: 7 Apr 93 08:03:05 GMT
References: <1993Apr1.125044.13968@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Apr5.130105.25114@bradford.ac.uk> <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw>
Sender: news@spider.co.uk (USENET News System)
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK
Lines: 20
Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.spider.co.uk

In article <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw> tcchang@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw (T.C.Chang) writes:
>  Although the ADAPTEC declares that the 1542C is full competible with 1542B,
>but things don't like it!!
>
>  The 1542C CAN'T boot 386bsd!  Although is works fine with SCO and DOS.  We
>have tried many times to confirm it, but know nothing why it is.

I installed a 1542C last night.  It's not my primary drive, but I *can* boot
off it via the BOOTEASY 1.2 boot partition selector (which allows you to chain
directly to the second disk).  I use julian's boot blocks and the kernel
distributed with patchkit 0.2(.1?).  My primary drive is IDE.

I even bumped the DMA transfer speed up to 6.7Mb/s (diagnostics failed at 8.0
on my system), and first impressions are very satisfactory.

		Mark.
-- 
Mark Valentine, Spider Systems <mark@spider.co.uk>            /\oo/\
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."
"We're kind of stupid that way."