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From: Marten Kemp <marten_kemp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Need help using SCSI card
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Kees J Bot wrote:
> 
> In article <39D5327E.31DD2A3D@yahoo.com>,
> Marten Kemp  <marten_kemp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> Yes, if you can boot from the disk then it has a BIOS, so the BIOS
> driver should work.  On 386+ machines it should always work.  For a
> 286 you need a bit of luck, because the only way to get a 286 out of
> protected mode is with a hard reset and some hopefully working BIOS
> support.
> --
> Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Sciences dept., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Minix:       http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/   ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
> Minix-vmd:   http://www.Minix-vmd.org/        ftp://ftp.Minix-vmd.org/

Thanks. I'll post my results when I get the time to experiment Real Soon
Now <grin>.
-- Marten Kemp


