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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCSI Controllers & disks
Message-ID: <6353@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 19:01:14 GMT
References: <5746@portia.Stanford.EDU> <6100022@adaptex> <311@km4ba.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <311@km4ba.UUCP> alan@km4ba.UUCP (Alan Barrow) writes:
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>The Adaptec 1542 looks like the [SCSI] contoller to have!
>
The 1542(A) (and others, such as the WD, as far as I know) have a
problem, in their current implementation, working together with
386^MAX (from Qualitas).  In short, they DON'T work together.

The technical support folks at Qualitas they are aware of the
problem but that it has to be solved in the SCSI controller's BIOS
routines.  Something about properly identifying some buffer meory or
something used by the controller that conflicts with whtat 386^MAX
is trying to do.

I've called the Adaptec SCSI guru a couple of times, leaving
messages for a return call, but so far no response.  I'll update
this note when/IF I find out anything.

Bottom line: I still use the 1542A, but I'm switching from 386^MAX
to a slightly different scheme, using VM/386, and I'll set up one
virtual machine to do the networking (the reason for needing 386^MAX
in the first place is the ungodly amount of memory PC-NFS hogs).

kEITHe