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Re: AHA 1542 driver performance questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Milz)
Mon Jan 20 18:43:38 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:10:00 +0100
From: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
>
> 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
I have a 1542B here, ROM rev. 3.20. It handles a DEC 3160S (1528 cyl)
just fine (albeit not very fast). The 1024 cyl issue is really only BIOS
(i.e. DOS and other boot) related.
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