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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle.unit.no!he From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no Subject: Re: Adaptec 1740 vs. 1742 Message-ID: <1993Aug1.204913.1068@ugle.unit.no> Originator: he@ugle.unit.no Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator) Organization: SINTEF RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway References: <1993Jul19.185232.15876@ugle.unit.no> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 20:49:13 GMT Lines: 13 In article <1993Jul19.185232.15876@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no writes: >can someone enlighten me as to the difference between an Adaptec 1740 >and an Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI controller. Is the only difference that >the 1742 has a floppy controller which the 1740 doesn't have? Hi, I see noone else has followed up to this one. Maybe it's common knowledge, but just in case: the above is essentially correct, as I have been informed via several direct replies. There appears to be a small twist to this -- there are two 1740's -- 1740 and 1740A. The former is older and the microcode on that type of controller can be downloaded via software, whereas this cannot be done on the 1740A. - Havard