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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: bsd/os 2.1 & adaptec 2940UW
Date: 3 Feb 1997 18:06:29 -0800
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>Using BSD/OS 2.1 and the 2940UW I dont seem to be able to get the
>kernel to report anything faster than 10M/s at boot. I have enabled UW
>in the scsi bios, disconnected the cdrom on the advice of a previous
>post, and have applied the kernel patch from bsdi which apparently
>introduces support for the features of the scsi card.

I figure that it's just another reporting bug, like the one where the polarity
of the sync inquiry was reversed and so the kernel claimed that sync devices
were async.