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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: <1992Dec31.222903.8604@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.185137.6917@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1ht5e0INNcak@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec31.183755.764@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1hvj14INNf7s@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:29:03 GMT
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- In <1hvj14INNf7s@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
-
- >>Hmmm. I have two people from Adaptec who disagree about this, and you
- >>think YOU know better what ADAPTEC did?
-
- >On my desk in my office right now in front of me is a PC with an
- >Adaptec 1542B controller with the 3.20 ROM BIOS upgrade and a 1.2
- >gigabyte SCSI hard disk -- there is only one hard disk controller
- >and only one hard disk in the box -- it boots and runs OS/2 2.0,
- >OS/2 2.1b, SCO UNIX SYSV/386 3.2r2.0, SCO ODT 1.1, MS-DOS, and it
- >supports (via an ASPI4DOS CONFIG.SYS driver upgrade from Adaptec
- >public switched telephone network BBS download) Windows-3.0/MSDOS
- >and Windows-3.1/MSDOS. Oh, by the way, it also works fine under
- >the 386BSD-0.1 BSD 4.3 UNIX internet online SCSI driver upgrade.
-
- >Frankly, I don't think my data is really being reliably written
- >to, stored, and retrieved from some 'virtual disk' made out of
- >thin air. I really really hope my operating systems & code are
- >resident on some actual real physical concrete hard disk drive.
-
- >Then again, maybe the guys at Adaptec know better about what is
- >happening inside of my system. Where do they think I'm keeping
- >four partitions of operating system, application code and data?
- >Maybe the bits are hiding in my uninterruptable power supply --
- >or maybe they are being cached away on my video display screen?
-
- Well, frankly the preceding tells me that you're just some arrogant
- little snot who probably doesn't know what he's talking about. Now
- then, as I'm sure someone of your obvious omniscience is aware, 1.2G
- drives typically format out at UNDER 1G -- in other words, there isn't
- any frigging difference. Now then, perhaps you'd like to explain just
- how it is that all those known-nothings at Adaptec managed to produce
- this miracle on your system without anyone having the slightest clue
- about what the hell is going on with THE STUFF THEY DESIGN AND BUILD?
-
- >>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.
-
- >We are not talking guesswork by some technical support geek at the
- >Adaptec Technical Support hotline -- we're talking about the actual
- >physical real material hard core system sitting right in front of
- >me every day of the week. None of these drivers are broken -- none
- >of these configurations give me any errors in normal system ops or
- >under intensive disk diagnostic software exercises. I am not just
- >saying it works "just BECAUSE" -- I have actually used the Adaptec
- >1542B controlled extensively in each of the configurations named.
-
- That's right, we're not. We're talking about a Senior Engineer.
- Obviously too stupid to tie his own shoes. I didn't notice what title
- the guy here carried, if any, but he, too, wasn't "some technical
- support geek at the Adaptec Technical Support hotline". Hell, maybe
- you just got lucky. Maybe the Senior Engineer who told me otherwise
- is mistaken. Maybe you're a lying sack of arrogant shit. No way to
- tell from here. Frankly, given this little snit, I wouldn't trust you
- to tell me that the sky was blue.
-
- >Maybe the guys at Adaptec tech support haven't even seen OS/2 2.0,
- >OS/2 2.0 + CSD, or OS/2 2.1 beta?? Who knows? In any case, just
- >relying on the hardware translation of disk geometry works fine in
- >each of my configurations -- and I don't understand why it should
- >not work just fine for anyone else with similar operating systems.
-
- I wouldn't know what Adaptec tech support thinks. Go back and read
- the thread again, dipshit. Then don't get back to me. I still want
- to hear what the folks who are designing, building, and selling the
- stuff say about whether it will work or not.
-
- --
- "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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