1540 and sync. SCSI drives

[John Hood]

In article <307 at dksoft.incom.de> dirk at dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen) writes:
>Does it work to connect a synchronous (4 MB/sec) disk drive and
>an asynchronous (1.5 MB/sec) streamer onto the same SCSI bus on
>the 386/ix Adaptec 1540 controller ? Does the driver switch the
>disk drive into sync. mode or does it use both devices at async
>mode ?

According to Adaptec documentation, the controller itself handles
negotiation for synchronous/asynchronous operation.  This is an option
selected by a jumper on the board.

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