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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:10252 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1360 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!wintermute.phys.psu.edu!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD? Message-ID: <C517FB.8J9@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <1993Apr1.125044.13968@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Apr5.130105.25114@bradford.ac.uk> <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 22:21:10 GMT Lines: 31 In article <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw> tcchang@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw (T.C.Chang) writes: >In article <1993Apr5.130105.25114@bradford.ac.uk> T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD) writes: >>Has anyone else seen this problem - or has anyone succeeded in getting >>the 1542C to work with 386bsd. I'm wanting to buy a SCSI card for my PC, >>and all the vendors are pushing the 1542C, but I don't want to buy one >>if I can't use it with 386bsd. (on the other hand if it can be made to >>work, I'd just as soon have the newer card). >> >>Follow-ups directed to comp.os.386bsd.questions. >>-- >>Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk > > Although the ADAPTEC declares that the 1542C is full competible with 1542B, >but things don't like it!! > > The 1542C CAN'T boot 386bsd! Although is works fine with SCO and DOS. We >have tried many times to confirm it, but know nothing why it is. When we first tried the 1542C with linux, we had the same problem. We were probing for the card with a few simple commands (there is an echo command that should echo a byte back to you), and this works fine with the 1542B. For some reason the 1542C needs to have the mailboxes set up before this command will work. Once I added a command to the linux kernel to set up the mailboxes, the 1542C is recognized and works just fine. I have not idea if this will help you with 386bsd, but I just thought that I would mention it. -Eric -- "When Grigor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." -F. Kafka