Subject: Re: scsi controllers
To: Theo Deraadt <uunet!fsa.ca!deraadt@uunet.UU.NET>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@wrl.EPI.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 12/01/1993 00:25:48
> A 1542-series controller will never work though. The mailbox format
> specifies that only 24 bits of address be passed to the controller.
> If you have a 32bit controller capable of running in XXX mode and 1542
> mode, and want it to run with more than 16M of memory -- do NOT run it
> in the 1542 mode.
Perhaps this machine is different, but I am right now using a 1542 on a machine
with 32Mb of memory. Of course, I run into several weird problems, such as
occasional panics during autoconfiguration, and the odd crash for no good
reason; caveat emptor :-)
--Ken H.
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