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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: AHA-1542B, AHA-1542BK, or AHA-1542B+?
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:20:27 GMT
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- Mike Berger () wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec23.134535.19192@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>,
- : jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) wrote:
- : >
- :
- : > Whew, this got longer than I expected. I would recommend at least
- : > purchasing the KIT. I have 2 AHA1542B cards and I bought the kit
- : > both times (second time to make sure I had the latest drivers).
- : > For a first time buyer, I would get the kit, unless you're tight
- : > on money (it *is* the holiday season...).
- : >
- : The kit includes ASW-1410, the aspi4dos driver, which is very useful,
- : the Novell drivers, and OS/2 1.X drivers. If you don't need the latter
- : two, you might be better off purchasing an OEM disk controller board and
- : buying ASPI4DOS separately. All components of the kit are available
- : unbundled.
-
- Of course, it wasn't necessary for Jeff to buy the kit the second time to
- get updated drivers (not now anyway) since Adaptec has an upgrade program
- in place on their BBS. Whether it would be legal to run the ASPI SW on both
- at the same time is questionable though.
-
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