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From: loc@tmsoft.UUCP (Leigh Clayton)
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Subject: Re: Completely frustrated by SCSI / ISC combo
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 In <9524@ubc-cs.UUCP> Robert Lin describes troubles with AHA1542:

 This message is coming to you from an Intel 302 (386/25) with an AHA1542A
spinning a Priam disk (as well as a Sony MO disk). Both DOS and 386/ix
(2.0.2) seem to work perfectly, and my boot (while not as fast as I would
like :-) seems to drive the disk at a reasonable speed and never aborts
as you describe. I'm not aware of any tricks involved -- it worked fine,
as far as I can tell, even before I configured the HPDD to know I had an
Adaptec card. In fact, of all the things I've got stuffed into that box,
the AHA1542 is my pick for the 'trouble free installation and operation'
award of the year.

 I seem to have it set to use IRQ 11 and DMA 5 (ignoring the floppy)(this
is from my notes; I haven't opened the box to check that I wrote it down
right); if this isn't the way you have it plugged you might try it again.
To speed yourself up, you might try installing DOS on it; in the 1542-only
configuration, once you get it to work with DOS I betcha it'll run 386ix
just fine too.

.../Leigh

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