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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!quantum!danh From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) Subject: Re: Buslogic VLB SCSI controller Message-ID: <rsa4llr@qnx.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 02:34:41 GMT Organization: QNX Software Systems References: <HSU.94Jan28185211@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <2is7me$q5e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <7c_4rxj@qnx.com> <2j5qj5$o7s$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au> Lines: 25 In article <2j5qj5$o7s$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au> wrote: > >I'd like to see QNX run on this combination.. The board locks up >before you get to access the floppy drives for a first-time boot. >It's not an OS problem, it's a *firmware* problem. The OS does not >get to be an issue... > >I some more information: >This BT-445S is the latest revision available. >it has BIOS version 4.70 >it has FIRMWARE (aka. "mcode") version 3.35 > >The drive is a Quantum Empire LPS1080S. Sorry, but the QNX testing I was referring to didn't include that particular Quantum drive, it included a 1 Gbyte version of the Maxtor drive. The particular hardware combination was an ALR Evolution V Pentium machine, the localbus Buslogic SCSI BT-445S controller card and the Maxtor SCSI drive. -- Dan Hildebrand email: danh@qnx.com QNX Software Systems, Ltd. QUICS: danh (613) 591-0934 (data) (613) 591-0931 x204 (voice) mail: 175 Terence Matthews (613) 591-3579 (fax) Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2M 1W8