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From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adatptec 1515
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:56:18 GMT
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>Dave Blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote:

>> Can someone suggest a SCSI card that works well in a 486, non PCI
>> machine for me?

>AHA-154[02][ABC]

>Yes, even the 1540A works fine for me (this is a `super-long' card),

There is at least a restriction on 154x version A and B: you have to
have the "gigabyte proms" (not one of the early ones) to handle drives
over 1 GB successfully. On old versions, this means reprogramming the
chip.