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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
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