George White wrote in a message to Roy J Tellason:
GW> Hi Roy,
GW> You wrote to Rich Wonneberger:
RJT>> I went through a bunch of grief similar to this in the 386 machine in
RJT>> the other room. I was also using an Adaptec, a 1540 in this case
RJT>> (same card, no floppy interface).
RJT>Whoops, that's innacurate, it was a 1520...
GW> What's inaccurate?
My original post. I thought I was talking about a 154x _here_, and was
wrong about that...
GW> I've got a bunch of 1540's here, they are all 1542's without
GW> the floppy interface. The 1520 is a PIO device and only
GW> suitable for devices with a slow data rate (CDROMs/Scanners
GW> etc) and not for HDs.
Apparently. It sure didn't seem to want to work well with trying to install
to it! Hopefully I'll have better luck with the 2842 that's in this box
now...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com
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