INTEL 5.4 2.0 and Adaptec 1542B
Karl Denninger
kdenning at genesis.Naitc.Com
Wed May 22 06:47:18 AEST 1991
In article <1991May21.173836.6629 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>rossw at 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.
You're lucky it worked at all!
I had a Mylex 486/25 in here about 6-8 months ago. It set records too --
it was the first 486 motherboard here, and the one with the shortest time to
live at this facility ;-)
It didn't pass the DMA test on the 1542B, so back it went. We got some
"clone" board from an unknown company which worked fabulously (and still
does).
--
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