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Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542CP and 2.0.5
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:55:59 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: johnl@microware.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199508311959.PAA12848@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Aug 31, 95 03:59:15 pm
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> It could be because it is not unlocking the mailbox because it
> doesn't recognise the board revision of the apparently new 1542CP.
> (What is a CP anyway?)

I don't know what a features a 1542C offers, but the CP version 
supports the SCSI SCAM protocol for negotiating the SCSI id and Plug and 
Play support.
 
> Please test this and report back if you can.

I will need to get FreeBSD installed on an IDE drive to rebuild the kernel.
Unless someone can create a new kernel for me on a bootable 1.44M floppy,
it might be a couple of days.

johnl@microware.com