From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 15:31:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16625 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:31:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16590 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15135; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:30:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd015110; Thu Aug 27 15:30:31 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28894; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:30:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808272230.PAA28894@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542i Performance on -stable [was Re: SCSI Controller] To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:30:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, joelh@gnu.org, dakott@alpha.delta.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808271514.RAA17496@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Aug 27, 98 05:14:48 pm 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 > Hm. You might have a one-off prototype or whatever. I don't think so... > > 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. > > You could check the EISA config string, a 1740 is an ADP0000 and a > 1740A is a ADP0001 if I remember well. For the 1740 there are multiple > sets of firmware/BIOS around, the newer ones have different translations > so you can acommodate a big drive. I will look for this. I'm pretty sure it was a firmware issue. 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