From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Can the Yggdrasil CD REALLY be this bad?!? Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 01:39:48 GMT
Boy, Your talking pretty tough about _BETA_ software here...
In article <JKH.93Jun20030917@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>First off, with my 486/33 EISA system using an Adaptec 1742A
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>controller in enhanced mode and using the Yggdrasil Beta Test Release
>CD, here were my rather unpleasant experiences:
>
>1. The kernel supplied falls over very frequently with SCSI errors,
> where the controller times out and hangs completely during the install.
> Perhaps it works on the more common IDE drives, in which case this is not
> a problem for the majority, but it was certainly a cause for concern
> to me. 4 install tries were necessary to get it to run all the way
> through. This was, in any case, by far the least of my problems.
>
Same Same, Note however that everything ran smooth as silk and installed
absolutely clean when I used a WD7000FASST2 card instead of an AHA1742A
Also true of an install from an ST-02 card.
Tried the adaptec controller in Enhancend and Emulation modes. Barf
Barf.
Oh, BTW the AHA1742A barfed running a SCSI tape drive attempting to
install SCO 3.2.4 too. I think there are some firmware problems or
programming miscue's with the '1742, all over the place. I was not
impressed with this card. I may have to replace it with a DPT.
-- Keith Smith keith@ksmith.com 5719 Archer Rd. Digital Designs BBS 1-919-423-4216 Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201 Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...