Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!deimos!eecea!tah386!terry
From: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA1542 SCSI controller & h
Message-ID: <613@tah386.manhattan.ks.us>
Date: 19 Dec 89 02:38:37 GMT
References: <16630@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <6700046@adaptex>
Reply-To: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan
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Somebody wrote:
>
>>/* ---------- "Adaptec AHA1542 SCSI controller & h" ---------- */
>>
>>We wish to use a 1542 with a high speed CPU.  Specifically, a Cached 25Mhz
>>80386 machine.  What problems, if any, am I likely to run into doing this?
>>I know the 1542 is a third-party DMA board, which implies that it will do
>>it's own thing with the bus.  Will this get me in trouble with the cache?

I had not thought of possible cache problems, but I must confess,
I have a 25 Mhz AMI motherboard running with a 1542 to make this posting.  
I also have a WD track buffered RLL controller running, as the SCSI
stuff is just borrowed to see how it works.  In short, I love it and
it works right out of the box.

-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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