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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$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au>
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In article <2j5qj5$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.
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