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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!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: Elusive SCSI problems (Adaptec 1542C) <snarl!> Message-ID: <1993May14.194421.8565@sophia.smith.edu> Keywords: Adaptec 1542C, Quantum, SCSI, 386bsd Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Organization: Smith College References: <C70nBJ.387@world.std.com> <1993May14.155303.6702@sophia.smith.edu> <1993May14.181350.22631@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 19:44:21 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1993May14.181350.22631@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >>Last night I downloaded a program from the Adaptec BBS that can >>set the bus on/off times. I twiddled them all around an it had >>NO effect. > >Is this thig repostable? Sound like we ought to have one living on agate. I'll check, if it is then I'll put it up. I also got a formatting tool which will really do a low level format on a Quantum (normally they just immediately return saying the format was complete when nothing was actually done). >>Given the symptoms, any tech support person is naturally going >>to point their finger at the SCSI software in 386bsd. That is >>about how I feel now too. > >If 386BSD's SCSI driver can discriminate between the 1542c and 1542b, then >there a way to tell them apart and they're not compatable. It has already been established that the two are slightly different; mostly compatible but not 100%. However supposedly the scsi driver has been fixed to account for the incompatibility... -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ ======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===