From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 15:30:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16316 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16233 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03569; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:28:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd003546; Thu Aug 27 15:28:38 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28819; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:28:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808272228.PAA28819@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542i Performance on -stable [was Re: SCSI Controller] To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:28:28 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, joelh@gnu.org, dakott@alpha.delta.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808271512.JAA08751@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 27, 98 09:12:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You're confused. See above. There was no such thing as a 1742B. > > > 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. > > That was supported on *all* boards that I'm aware of. At least it was > on the 1740 that I had oh so long ago. :) I had to get seperate (newer) setup disks. The 1740-ness of the controller was not in question; whether or not the EISA CMOS supported the alternate translation mode was what was. I'm sure I bitched about this at great length back in 1993. 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