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Re: AHA 1542 driver performance questions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Jan 19 17:49:50 1997

To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 	19 Jan 1997 19:50:28 -0000

In article <199701190227.VAA01044@vanzandt.mv.com>,
Jim Van Zandt  <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> wrote:
>The fellow I bought my AHA1542A from had installed a replacement ROM
>which made it equivalent to an AHA1542B (SCSI-2, if I remember
>correctly).  You might want to look into that.

Getting a newer ROM set is a good move. The original A series ROM doesn't
support scatter gather. The B series ROM's didnt tend to support >1024
cylinders. The current ROM's handle the lot

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