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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
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- References: <1992Dec30.185137.6917@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1ht5e0INNcak@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec31.183755.764@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1hvj14INNf7s@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:57:11 GMT
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- In <1hvj14INNf7s@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
-
- >>Hmmm. I have two people from Adaptec who disagree about this, and you
- >>think YOU know better what ADAPTEC did?
-
- >On my desk in my office right now in front of me is a PC with an
- >Adaptec 1542B controller with the 3.20 ROM BIOS upgrade and a 1.2
- >gigabyte SCSI hard disk -- there is only one hard disk controller
- >and only one hard disk in the box -- it boots and runs OS/2 2.0,
- ...
- >We are not talking guesswork by some technical support geek at the
- >Adaptec Technical Support hotline -- we're talking about the actual
- >physical real material hard core system sitting right in front of
- >me every day of the week. None of these drivers are broken -- none
- ...
- >Maybe the guys at Adaptec tech support haven't even seen OS/2 2.0,
- >OS/2 2.0 + CSD, or OS/2 2.1 beta?? Who knows? In any case, just
- >relying on the hardware translation of disk geometry works fine in
- >each of my configurations -- and I don't understand why it should
- >not work just fine for anyone else with similar operating systems.
-
-
- Seems to be quite a heated argument going here.
-
- I was just glancing thru the README file which came with OS/2 on my new
- computer. And under the topics of SCSI controllers, it specifically states
- that the Adaptec 1542B will not access drives over 1.0 Gigabyte in size.
-
- So, I'd say that there is some confusion going on here. Perhaps IBM needs
- to update their Readme file, and Adaptec needs to get this BIOS upgrade
- distributed a little faster. Or something like that.
-
- Now back to the flame fest in progress...
-
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