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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: WD SCSI Controller
Message-ID: <1990May5.203455.16809@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 5 May 90 20:34:55 GMT
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campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:


>The problem is how do you install Xenix on your hard disk using these
>controllers since you need the drivers before you can access the hard 
disk?

>I tried using the WD controller on my new system with no success so 
rather
>than waste a bunch of time trying to find out what the fix was, I 
returned
>the controller and went out to my local adaptec store and got the 1542
>which works perfectly.

   There lies a small problem.  With Xenix 2.2.4, the Tandy release with 
SCSI support, the new Adaptec 154xB controller doesn't work out of the 
crate.  Have had a few discussions with Adaptec, SCO, Tandy and the local 
Nix wizards, and the result is a forced upgrade to 2.3.2.

   Hope that either SCO or Adaptec will release a driver for the beastie 
before long.  I've heard it is even better at it's job than the A model...

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