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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI on 386sx with UNIX ?????
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Date: 17 Nov 90 04:29:26 GMT
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testurm@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm ) writes:
>Hello, world !
>
>I've got a special problem : 
>
>I've got a 386sx, one 80MB Seagate ST296 SCSI HD, and I want
>to run SCO UNIX or SCO XENIX -386 on it;
>
>Unix does not work with the HostAdapter ST02 from SEAGATE.
>
>With which Host Adapter does Unix work correctly ?
>Do I need drivers ?
>
>(I've heard from the Adaptec AHA 1542 or 1522 ?!?! )

You need an Adaptec AHA 1540/1542 or MicroNet's ISA SCSI host adaptor. 
MicroNet's adaptor is supposedly device driver compatable with the Adaptec.

The Seagate adaptors are very dumb boards, only sufficient for running MS-DOS
with a SCSI drive.
 
     // JCA

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