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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mikes@cs.indiana.edu From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Which Adaptec ISA devices are supported? Message-ID: <1993Apr9.144146.19780@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Indiana University Computer Science, Bloomington References: <1993Apr1.125044.13968@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Apr6.133603.29577@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Apr9.141034.6225@sci34hub.sci.com> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 14:41:38 -0500 Lines: 17 In article <1993Apr9.141034.6225@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: > >The 1540x cards do not have the floppy interface on them; aside from >that, they are identical to the equivalent rev of 1542x. If you have There are some Adaptec boards that were OEM'd by Tandy/Radio Shack which have rev numbers different from the standard Adaptec. They also have different EPROMs. I'd stay away from anything labeled as coming from Tandy unless you can get a guarantee. (There was a Tandy 1540A which is what Adaptec called a 1540, and there was also a Tandy 1540B which Adaptec called a 1540A. -- Mike Squires (mikes@cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408