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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."