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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: 386BSD scsi problem
Message-ID: <1993Feb24.203614.22362@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 20:36:14 GMT
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In article <C2yo1r.2pn@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
>In <1993Feb16.220610.274@jcn.w.open.de> azell@jcn.w.open.de (Andreas Zell) writes:
>>if i try to boot the dist.fs floppy from 386BSD, i got the 
>>following message:
>>as0b: controller error 0x16 reading fsbn0
>>scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>My systemconfiguration is:
>>Adaptec 1542A
>
>The stock 386BSD 0.1 SCSI driver doesn't work with the 1542A. You need
>a 1542B.

Or get a patched kernel and bootblocks that support the 1542A, which 
patch00601 does.  The kernel in the patchkit bootables has the kernel fixes,
but the bootblocks did not get updated, unfortunately.

Nate
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