From: Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: 05/28/93 

From: koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA 1542 problem [solution]
Date: 28 May 1993 09:53:09 GMT

In <1eq44B3w165w@xivic.bo.open.de> ws@xivic.bo.open.de (Wolfgang Schelongowski) writes:

>thomas@dagobert.uni-duisburg.de (Thomas Scheunemann) writes:

>...
>> Obviosly the host adapter counts linux to this type of old software.

>IMHO the linux driver has been written for 1542 _B_ . The 1542C
>requires a different driver. For MSDOS Adaptec suplies a driver,
>but lots of problems were reported for anything else. I read
>that somewhere in a german computer magazine (c't ?). That the 1542C
>can be configured to behave like 1542B - as you have found out -
>was news to me.

The 1542 _C_ did work for me without any special configuring with a
Fujitsu 2624FA (525 MB FAST-SCSI) and a DEC DSP 3085 (850 MB FAST-SCSI)
with no problems.

Now I use a Buslogic (Bustek) BT445 VLB controller.

Harald 

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