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

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Jerry wrote:
> I am planning to add a 1GB SCSI drive onto my Adaptec 1542 controller, and I 
> was wondering if anyone on the mailing list has had any experiences with the 
> large drives. 
> 
> I plan to partition it with about 500MB for Linux, and the rest into a couple 
> of FAT or NT partitions.

System pioneer.ci.net has a Micropolis 2217 (just swapped out a DEC DSP
3160) and a DEC DSP3107, total 2.8Gb of storage.  System wizard.pn.com
(aka ftp.pn.com) has three drives on it, totaling about 5Gb.

Linux has no trouble handling the largest SCSI-2 drives on the market
today.  LILO can boot from any partition stored within the first gig.

We use Adaptec 1542C host adapters, exclusively.  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