Xref: utzoo comp.os.os2.misc:1185 comp.periphs.scsi:2517 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!fuug!nokia.fi!davasun!jpk From: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi (JP Koivisto) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI and OS/2 Summary: 1542A WORKS FINE WITH 1.21 Message-ID: <1991Apr29.113831.7470@davasun.data.nokia.fi> Date: 29 Apr 91 11:38:31 GMT Article-I.D.: davasun.1991Apr29.113831.7470 References: <8472@umd5.umd.edu> <1991Apr25.033305.10133@netcom.COM> <8485@umd5.umd.edu> <1991Apr27.031316.20745@netcom.COM> Reply-To: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi Organization: Nokia Data OY, Helsinki, Finland Lines: 60 Funny, but I have a 25MHz 386 with Adaptec 1542A controller. There's also a 300MB SCSI-disk & 150MB streamer. We also had a Sun386i which was unused - I tried the 300MB disk from Sun386i and put in it as a second drive AND IT WORKED (without even formatting), too bad I couldn't keep it! (In fact we also tried the SIMMs from the Sun386i AND THEY WORKED, too! I wonder if the 80387 from the Sun386i....) I've had it ever since October 1989 and I got DOS 4.01 & OS/2 1.1 with it when I got it! Both worked fine etc... End of last year I got an upgrade of OS/2 to 1.21 and it still works. I work at "Nokia Data" in Finland. That used to be "Nokia Data Systems" but end of last year the production & marketing/selling where split and "Nokia Data Systems" is the one making the machines/systems. (I hope I've got it at least basicly right). The point is, this european company (based in Stockholm, Sweden) is fairly big and they make their own machines. The DOS AND OS/2 versions are also 'Nokia' versions, ie. they have been fitted for these machines. The version of OS/2 I'm using says something like this on bootup (I took the strings from 'OS2LDR' & 'DISKN1.SYS' with 'strings' command as they usually flash by too quick to really memorize them. I'm 99% sure these are just what I see when booting...): Microsoft Operating System/2 Version 1.21 (C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1981-1990. All rights reserved. Nokia Data Systems OS/2 Revision 1.21B (C) Copyright Nokia Data Systems AB 1990 SCSI Manager 1.2 / 1990-10-12 by Nokia Data Systems AB installed I'm not sure what is the truth, but I seem to recall that the 1542-driver has been 'made' HERE, either from scratch (which I doubt) or at least by licensing some source from Adaptec! THIS PURELY MY GUESS, based on some rumours... The DISKN1.SYS also contains the string 'SCSIMGR$' which I saw also in a version of 'ASPI4OS2.SYS' which was supposed to be loaded when running SYTOS. However, the 'ASPI4OS2' ain't needed with Nokia's OS/2! (Hmm, I think version 1.1 of Nokia OS/2 DID need some special driver when using the streamer) SO, AN OS/2 DRIVER FOR Adaptec 1542A IS NOT A MYTH. IT EXISTS AND HAS EXISTED FOR A YEAR NOW! By the way, the same OS/2 can be used on a 'old' AT (MAD Technologies 10Mhz 286, with ordinary 70MB Micropolis disk). You don't need the DISKN1.SYS then, it uses DISK01.SYS in that case! jpk - JP Koivisto, Nokia Data OY, Helsinki, Finland --- EMail: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi Discl.: My opinions, my experiences, might not be facts!