I was wondering if anyone is using a 1GB SCSI drive

[Mark J. Dulcey]

> I bought three model
> 2842 host adapters, which are similar but with VESA local-bus performance,
> and later learned from a kernel developer that Adaptec no longer publishes
> its specs.  Anyone want to reverse-engineer this board to create a driver
> for it?  These boards are now mostly useless to me.
> 
> -rich

I believe that the 2742 driver that is under development (currently 
available as an alpha version) will work with the 2842 as well, since 
both boards use the same chipset.  There might be some differences in 
I/O port address and so forth that need to be dealt with.

It's certainly annoying that Adaptec doesn't publish the board 
specifictions any more.  I suppose they got tired of other companies 
making Adaptec-clone boards (there are a lot of SCSI host adapters 
out there with a 1542 compatibility mode), but closing up their specs 
might hurt them more in the long run.

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Mark J. Dulcey
mdulcey at pryder.pn.com