From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 13 11:44:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03674 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03669 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA06620 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:44:39 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA15363 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:44:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA01465 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607131840.UAA01465@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: adaptec 154X support To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 20:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31E7BB9F.6CAB@ime.net> from Gary Chrysler at "Jul 13, 96 11:07:11 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Chrysler wrote: > I have several Adaptec 1542CF's, For each and every one of them I > have had troubles with external drives. Never used one with > internal drives, So don't know about that. > The solution, Call Adaptec techsup they'll send ya a special > external cable and the troubles dissapear! > For FREE at that! That's sorta ``common wisdom''. I remember this discussion (also here in the computer magazines) when the 154xC appeared. They've got some timing much more aggressive than they used to have. Alas, there are so many crappy (and often too cheap) SCSI cables around. I normally don't trust a SCSI cable of less than USD 50 or so... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)