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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: SCO: loosing characters on serial port
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.141806.2283@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:18:06 GMT
- References: <JOCHEN.92Aug16104646@busybit.mrz.sub.org> <JOCHEN.92Aug18115519@mrz.sub.org>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <JOCHEN.92Aug18115519@mrz.sub.org>, jochen@mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner) writes:
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- | I just spoke with our dealer: the german distributor, from which he
- | receives the adaptec controllers, knows about problems with adaptec
- | 1542 in multitasking systems like OS/2 or unix. Even in DOS
- | environments problems are reported. But adaptec always says, it's not
- | their controller, these are timing problems with the mainboard. This
- | distributor recommends: don't use the 1542 in multitasking systems,
- | use the 1522 (which is not so good in performance with large disks),
- | use the 1742 (in EISA systems) or use an adapter from other
- | manufacturers like Future Domain or DPT.
-
- I've used the 1542 with four various motherboards, running Xenix, ODT,
- Dell V.4 and Linux, and have not had this problem. I can believe that
- there are problems with some motherboards, some are really garbage, but
- I would rather get the problem out and have a good m/b than use a slow
- controller in hopes that the defective part of the system wouldn't
- break.
-
- My experience has been all good, and I have some Bustek 1542-clones at
- work which work fine, too.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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