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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.183755.764@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec21.023248.9417@weyrich.UUCP> <1992Dec28.200111.16696@adapcal.UUCP> <1992Dec30.185137.6917@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1ht5e0INNcak@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:37:55 GMT
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- In <1ht5e0INNcak@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
-
- >>Hmm, I had that information straight from an Adaptec Senior Engineer
- >>(that the PROM upgrade is only for MS-DOS and would break most of the
- >>other drivers in embedded support (OS/2, UNIX)) because they relied on
- >>the translation being done the 'old' way. Apparently ONE of you is
- >>mistaken; what I need now is a good way to know which of you it is.
-
- >Crock of sh*t!!! Dunno 'bout OS/2 -- but at least for SCO UNIX SYSV/386
- >3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 the Adaptec BIOS upgrade causes no problem. Indeed, any
- >operating system which doesn't believe whatever the Adaptec controller
- >tells it about disk geometry -- and instead relies on it's own peculiar
- >belief system about geometry of particular disks is not going to do well
- >in the marketplace where disk drive geometry changes with each new drive
- >released. Why require an OS upgrade for new drive geometry when it would
- >be much simple just to believe the Adaptec controller translation?
-
- Hmmm. I have two people from Adaptec who disagree about this, and you
- think YOU know better what ADAPTEC did? Crock of shit, yourself.
- Personally, I'd like to get my information from someone who KNOWS the
- correct answer; not someone who asserts that their answer must be
- correct just BECAUSE.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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