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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5R and Buslogic VLB SCSI controller?
Date: 8 Jul 1994 05:42:50 GMT
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Bing the merciless (bing@xap.com) wrote:
: I recently bought a new machine with the intention of running FreeBSD
: 1.1.5R at my home. This is my first experience with SCSI and *BSD.
Hey just like me!
: kcopy_bt boots, I stick in the filesyst floppy, it finds my SCSI
: controller and my 1.2Gb Conner cfp1060s SCSI disk, it says 'changing
: root device to fd0d' and hangs. The floppy drive light never goes
: back on.
I have the same exact SCSI controller, but your HD is bigger. Trade ya?
: Reading through the *BSD FAQ and some fairly recent FreeBSD mailing-
: list mail led me to believe that ioaddr 0x330 and IRQ 12 were the
: way to go with the GENERICBT kernel on the kcopy_bt disk, so that's
: what I've set up the controller to have since I began.
It worked great for me, after I found out about IRQ 12. On the card
there are two things you need to set for IRQ 12. A few DIP switches and
one jumper. I think the address defaults to 0x330. Make sure you get
those DIPs and jumper. It had me puzzled for a few hours (until I decided
to keep on reading my Buslogic manuals).
: Can anyone help me out? I'd really, really like to be able to run
: FreeBSD! I can take the card back and get a different one if I
: need to.
Don't take the card back! It works great! I love that bright LED too
(well, except when the cover's on. :-)
Hope this and my poor attempts at humor work.
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