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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at!not-for-mail From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: BusLogic 445S VLB SCSI and 386BSD/NetBSD Date: 5 Jul 1993 12:14:54 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria Lines: 19 Message-ID: <218uuuINNik@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> References: <C9onH8.FFn@percy.rain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] In article <C9onH8.FFn@percy.rain.com> Leo (leop@percy.rain.com) wrote: -> Is anyone using a BL 445S to run NetBSD? I tried booting with the two -> kc floppies. The ahbbt floppy worked and seemed to recognize the -> controller, but I haven't actually tried to do an install yet. Is it -> similar enough to the BusLogic EISA controller to work? It's similar enough to the Adaptec 1542 to work perfectly. I'm using the ISA card with 386bsd (Julian's driver) and am very satisfied. -> -> For Linux, a slightly patched version of the aha1542.c file was -> required because the 445S returns a DMA priority of 0. The patched -> version works fine. I didn't have to patch the driver, it just worked. -> -> Thanks for any info! -> Leo Christoph