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From: rogerl@mv.mv.com (Roger M. Levasseur)
Subject: Re: Hardware for *BSD next weekend!
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 04:07:14 GMT
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In article <1994Apr3.054516.27308@hal.depaul.edu>,
Brian A. Hirt <bhirt@hawk.depaul.edu> wrote:
>It's pretty hard to buy 1542B's now, you'll probably have to go with a 1542C.
>Some of the older 1542C's had problems with the *BSD stuff. A BusLogic
>may work better, just a thought.
I believe it would be a 1542CF. However, I would like to ask just
what kind of problems the older 1542Cs have encountered? I have
a 1542C that I got in April 1993 and that was not long after they
were shipped. I have had no problems with it running a cd/rom and
a QIC-525 drive. The only troubles I'm aware of are from running
the DMA transfer rate higher than the machine can work with, but
that is a config type issue.
-roger
rogerl@mv.mv.com