Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:30:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, joelh@gnu.org, dakott@alpha.delta.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542i Performance on -stable [was Re: SCSI Controller] Message-ID: <199808272230.PAA28894@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808271514.RAA17496@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Aug 27, 98 05:14:48 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hm. You might have a one-off prototype or whatever. I don't think so... > > 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. > > You could check the EISA config string, a 1740 is an ADP0000 and a > 1740A is a ADP0001 if I remember well. For the 1740 there are multiple > sets of firmware/BIOS around, the newer ones have different translations > so you can acommodate a big drive. I will look for this. I'm pretty sure it was a firmware issue. 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199808272230.PAA28894>