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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: NetBSD and Adaptec 1542C? Message-ID: <1993Jun19.203937.16456@sophia.smith.edu> Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Organization: Smith College References: <1vvelbINNsqs@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 20:39:37 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1vvelbINNsqs@mojo.eng.umd.edu> ddev@eng.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes: >There has been a bit of discussion lately about possible incompatibilities >between NetBSD and the Adaptec 1542C SCSI card...has a verdict been reached? >Will the 1542C be supported in future releases of 386BSD / NetBSD, if it is >not currently supported? I don't know about any verdict, but to my knowledge the one incompatibilty between net/386bsd and the 1542c was fixed quite a while ago. There *have* been lots of problems reported with the 1542c but most if not all of those have turned out to be *hardware* problems. In particular, the 1542c is apparently *extremely* picky about the cables you use to connect external devices. In my case, there was a subtle conflict between the 1542c and the IDE controller on the motherboard. Since disabling the IDE controller, everything works great. BTW, I have a new 240 meg conner IDE drive for sale. $300 or trade for a comparable SCSI drive. I called conner and the warranty *is* transferable. Contact me at jfieber@sophia.smith.edu if you are interested. -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ === 42 19 30 N 72 38 30 W ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===