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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Moving to different controller type (was: Re: Adaptec ROMs)
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Date: 5 Dec 90 23:53:58 GMT
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In article <448@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>
>I have a related question here.  I formatted and installed Xenix
>2.3.2 on a machine using and Adaptec 1542b with a Wren Runner
>hard drive.  I then put this hard disk into a Tandy 4000 with an
>older Adaptec 1540 (the original Tandy version without the
>connector on the back).  I then had to re-install Xenix from
>scratch since the disk couldn't be read by the older controller.
>

I have seen this also.  There is obviously some difference in the way
that the older controllers and the newer ones see the disk.

'Course...noone has ever guarenteed this sort of thing to work, so I
didn't get to upset when it happened to me.

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