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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!news.cerf.net!nic.cerf.net!maximum1 From: maximum1@nic.cerf.net (Mark Geisert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Boot blocks for a BT-956C Date: 18 Jul 1995 23:29:06 GMT Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3uhg42$e9t@news.cerf.net> References: <3uh1d0$8rq@news.inlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net In article <3uh1d0$8rq@news.inlink.com> larkin@vulcan.inlink.com (Brian D. Larkin) writes: >The question is: What boot blocks do I need to install to get it >to boot with the above port option? Or does the fact that I do >not receive a /boot message mean that it isn't even getting that >far? I'm using the vanilla Adaptec/BusLogic boot blocks with my BT-956C. I did not install directly onto a Wide drive due to cable shortages. I used a spare machine with a BT-445C, installed on a narrow drive, and then hooked the narrow drive on the narrow half of the BT-956C's SCSI bus in its machine. I had a bit of trouble getting the BT-956C working with my Micronics M54Pi motherboard, aggravated by mismatches between screen dumps in the m/b manual and what the ROM BIOS actually displayed. Things started working when I switched on 'Intel Plug-n-Play Extensions' in the BIOS setup. I hope you can get it working.. it would be REAL nice to compare Fast+Wide SCSI timings under BSD/OS. I find that my Wide drive can be dd'd at 3MB/sec if the narrow drive is taken off the bus, but only 1MB/sec when it's on. QBENCH (a DOS drive benchmark) sez my Wide drive can deliver 6.5 to 7 MB/sec so I'm sure wondering where the other half of my performance is going :-). Hope this helps, ..mark -- Mark Geisert maximum1@cerf.net Maximum R & D Nobody understands deadpan irony. 8820 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 225 See? Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA