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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1379 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:37:42 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!kcbbs!dgd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] Nobody using Buslogic 742a? Message-ID: <1009347.25614.7876@kcbbs.gen.nz> From: dgd@kcbbs.gen.nz (David Dix) Date: 17 Feb 93 07:06:54 GMT References: <2626@specgw.spec.co.jp> <1009334.26030.7493@kcbbs.gen.nz> Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand Lines: 51 In message <2626@specgw.spec.co.jp> amurai@specgw.spec.co.jp (Atsushi MURAI) replied to my posting: >David Dix (dgd@kcbbs.gen.nz) wrote: > >: No responses from my previous message about the Buslogic 742a scsi >: controller. >: I cannot get the 386bsd boot up process to complete when using the 742a in >: my Micronics eisa system. With a 1542b it works ok but with the 742a it gets >: as far as the line: >: starting network daemons: routed >: then dies. >: I then get timeout messages from the 742a driver and nothing more :-( > > I assume you are using Julian's beta 3 driver for your bt742a. If >that true, I've got a exactly same problem on my bt742a last October. > >But I am almost done fixing this problem and have a enhanced Julian's >driver. So If you could join me for stress testing this driver, please >let me know. (At least in my system both pathch 0.1 and 0.2, it's is >very stable right now ;-) > >Atsushi Murai. > >Note: I still don't have foreign connection for E-mail. > Please follow to NetNews. The result of much puzzleface making over this problem has impaired my basic reading abilities. I tried sending two email messages to Atsushi but have just realised there seems to be no email link to him (or Japan?) Anyways, this Buslogic (awka Bustek) BT742A seems to work without any problems for 6 people who replied to my original posting and NOT work for seven others of whom five of them say they have exactly the same problem that I am having with the BT742A. I am now patiently waiting on my Buslogic distributor to get me a technical manual so I can find out what these return codes are all about. In meantime I'd be really happy to try the 'enhanced' Julian's driver that Atsushi is working on and I assume the others with same problem would as well. So, if nobody has any major objections, PLEASE PLEASE post this new driver source to this newsgroup. Also if anyone is interested the LOMAS LDP-CACHE II scsi controller works fine with 386BSD. My controller has the Lomas bios 415 and GB12 version rom with 64k static ram track buffer and 2 megs of ram cache (can take a max of 4megs). This scsi controller provides an standard WD1003 interface to the ISA bus. dgd