Subject: Re: Adaptec 1742
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/05/1994 18:01:00
>>>Um... what do you think the bt742a and bt747s are? ;-)

>>I didn't think they were Adaptec 1742 compatible; that's why they have a
>>different driver, right?  Or do you mean something else?

>OK, point well taken.  I believe they started out as 1742 compatible
>(correct me if I'm wrong) but diverged.  However, I believe they still
>will work with drivers that don't use every extended option of their
>command language.

They are compatible with the 1542B.  The BusLogic 32bit "extended"
mode is incompatible with the 1742 32bit "extended" mode. 
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