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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7394 ; Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:44:10 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Won't recognize SCSI drive Message-ID: <1993Jan20.232120.7709@tfs.com> Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704 References: <1993Jan20.201015.12046@unlv.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:21:20 GMT Lines: 37 In article <1993Jan20.201015.12046@unlv.edu> ostgard@unlv.edu (Doug Ostgard) writes: >GA-201 Local Bus Video Controller >GA-400 Local Bus SCSI Controller >Maxtor LXT340S SCSI Hard Drive > >The problem is that the 386BSD kernal will not recognize that the hard drive >is present. The hard drive is partitioned with the 386BSD partition first, >and the DOS partition at the end. 200MB have been partitioned out for >386BSD with the remainder used for DOS. The GA-400 SCSI controller >user's manual says that the controller is hardware and software compatible >with Adaptec's AHA-1522 controller. Everything I have read about 386BSD >has implied 1542 compatibility. Does anyone know if the problem I am having >is related to the controller being incompatible? And is there anything I >can do about it in order to get my hard drive to be recognized. There is no driver for the 1522 It does not DMA like the 1542 and has a considerably differnet interface (I don't know if it has a processor on board like the 1542 does, but possibly not. > > - - - > >If necessary, we will try to modify the existing SCSI driver to work >for the AHA-1522. Any help in that area would also be appreciated. It'll be a big job.. julian +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v