Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:28:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, joelh@gnu.org, dakott@alpha.delta.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542i Performance on -stable [was Re: SCSI Controller] Message-ID: <199808272228.PAA28819@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808271512.JAA08751@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 27, 98 09:12:16 am
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> You're confused. See above. There was no such thing as a 1742B. > > > I'm also pretty sure the "B" comes from the EISA configuration > > capability that I had to read the serial number to the Adaptec people > > so they could tell me if the card supported it, whereby I was able to > > configure a non-standard translation mode to support larger drives > > than would otherwise be possible on a 1742/1742A. > > That was supported on *all* boards that I'm aware of. At least it was > on the 1740 that I had oh so long ago. :) I had to get seperate (newer) setup disks. The 1740-ness of the controller was not in question; whether or not the EISA CMOS supported the alternate translation mode was what was. I'm sure I bitched about this at great length back in 1993. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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