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Kees J Bot wrote:
> 
> In article <39D40C29.E53121AF@lucent.com>,
> Luis J. Medina <ljmedina@lucent.com> wrote:
> >
> >I am assuming this is caused because I am using an adaptec AHA 2940 scsi
> >card to control the hard drive.  I read in the installation document
> >that minix can handle adaptet's AHA 1540 scsi controller.
> 
> The 2940 and the 1540 have not much in common except the vendor, so you
> can't use the 1540 driver.  The BIOS driver (hd=bios) should work in any
> case, and its performance is decent enough so you won't miss not having
> a dedicated driver.
> --
> Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Sciences dept., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Kees:
Does this mean that other SCSI adapters with BIOSes might work? If I'm
running Minix I won't care too much about performance, just
functionality. I have a bunch of *old* adapters and *old* drives I'd
like to try in some *old* machines.
-- Marten Kemp


