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From: bill@alembic.acs.com (Bill Hatch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: INTEL 5.4 2.0 and Adaptec 1542B
Message-ID: <1991May27.003120.11645@alembic.acs.com>
Date: 27 May 91 00:31:20 GMT
References: <1991May20.145226.7155@march.co.uk>
Organization: Colman Research
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In article <1991May20.145226.7155@march.co.uk> rossw@march.co.uk (Ross Wakelin) writes:
>The INTEL 5.4 release 2.0 (developers edition) has buggy drivers for the
>Adaptec 1542B SCSI host adaptor.
>
>We were using this adaptor in a 25Mhz Mylex 486 motherboard, and achieved 
>a record number of system lockups and crashes.  The machine would go away
>for a minute or so and then report a SCSI error.  At this point, our only 
>option was to reboot the machine.

We have been using an Adaptek 1524B SCSI board with a HP SCSI 300MB disk
on a HP Vectra RS/c 386 20 Mhz, Intel 5.4, Unix V file system,
with no problems.     We did have some unexplained crashes with the
BSD file system.


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Bill Hatch  (301)470-3839(w)  (301)441-1675(h)
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