Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:28:57 GMT
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orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>My question is this: I have heard that SCSI disks larger than 1 Gb may
>not work properly without BIOS upgrades or special drivers. Is this true for
>OS/2?
I dunno 'bout OS/2, but that's the case for DOS.. You'll need the latest BIOS
from Adaptec (The microcode is available for DL via their BBS) and the latest
ASPI4DOS.SYS (v3.0a) to access all of your large disks. I discovered this
while trying to get a friend's Micropolis 1.6g drive to format to it's capacity.Luckily, we got through to Adaptec's BBS on the 1st try and were able to grab
the new BIOS code. A quick mid-night dash to work to burn a new chip and we
were in business. (Of course I was waaaay late for work the next day..eheh)
Thankfully I know this now 'cuz I'm about to plunk down for one of Fujitsu's