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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.234840.2630@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec12.174722.407@weyrich.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:48:40 GMT
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- In <1992Dec12.174722.407@weyrich.UUCP> orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
-
- >I tried to use the Adaptec BBS and couldn't get through, so maybe the
- >net can help....
-
- >I got an Adaptec AHA-1542B controller and want to use it with OS/2 2.0
- >and a large SCSI disk.
-
- >My question is this: I have heard that SCSI disks larger than 1 Gb may
- >not work properly without BIOS upgrades or special drivers. Is this true for
- >OS/2?
-
- I don't know if this is a problem for OS/2 or not, but if it is there
- is no fix for it. The Adaptec PROM upgrade is for DOS ONLY. The
- drivers for OS/2 make assumptions about the head/platter translation
- that the Adaptec controller is doing that would break if you updated
- the PROMs.
-
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