From: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk Subject: Re: 2.88M-ED-Drives with Adaptec 1542C under Linux Date: 18 Jun 1993 15:29:02 GMT
In article <QU-4t*zQk@caty.north.de> hal@caty.north.de (Holger Lubitz) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am going to buy a Linux box soon. I am certainly not going bother
>with slow, lame IDE drives, so I decided to go for the Adaptec
>1542C. I understand that there have been problems with the 1542C
>in earlier versions of Linux which are fixed now. However, I'd like
>to know if it's safe to buy an ED floppy instead of an HD one.
>
>Are those drives supported under Linux yet ? And if not: Will they
>be any time soon ? Will they work fine in HD mode at least so
>that I could just use it normally for the time between ?
>I am probably going for the Teac 235 J model.
>
>Holger
>
>--
>Holger Lubitz, Alte Amalienstrasse 26, 2900 Oldenburg, Germany
> Neue Postleitzahl ab 01.07.93: 26135 Oldenburg
I have got a 1542C with TEAC FD-235J. The SLS with 0.99.6 kernel
had some very weird problems with it - sometimes it would boot,
often it would not. I believe 0.99.7 works with the 1542C. (?)
My machine is at home in Germany, and I haven't got round to trying
a higher kernel, but 0.99.6 didn't like BIOS type 5 for the TEAC (ie.
it was set as 2.88MB in my AMI Bios). Setting it to 1.44MB works OK
(apart from the fact that the drive doesn't like the second half of
1.44MB disks :-( - see comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware)
It shouldn't be a problem to add 2.88MB support if it hasn't been done
allready!
If it hasn't been done yet I might have a try over summer vacation...
Andrew.