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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Subject: Re: Can A/UX 3.0 use SCSI-2 card? (was: Mac accelerators and A/UX 3.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.095224.4167@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:52:24 GMT
- References: <dmanning.712260444@cwis> <1992Jul27.213533.4284@noao.edu> <5!mmv7#.stever@netcom.com> <Bs32nw.GLw@acsu.buffalo.edu> <WEIGERT.92Jul28152336@etlhit.etl.go.jp>
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- weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:
- >I have bought a PLI Quick SCSI card and was very excited
- >about seeing how nice it performed on both my Syquest and my
- >normal drives (although the article you mention seems to
- >argue that such cards would only make sense if you have
- >superfast drives).
-
- >Unfortunately, the PLI card needs an init to be able to see
- >the drives connected to it. This init bombs my mac when I
- >try to boot A/UX (2.0.1). Since I am currently in Japan, I have not
- >tried to contact PLI about this problem yet, so I don't know
- >if this problem is of the "tough luck, not enough A/UX customers to
- >make fixing worthwhile"-type (as I was told when I bought my
- >data desk 3rd party keyboard).
-
- >If anybody knows about upgrades or fixes for the problem
- >with the PLI card, I would appreciate hearing about it.
-
- Forget it. It requires an A/UX driver, not a fixed init. Figure the
- chances on this are roughly 1 in 1E99. :-(
-
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