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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Newbie with EISA problems...
Message-ID: <1992Oct14.162719.6326@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:27:19 GMT
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In article <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> rjh@selway.umt.edu (The Necromancer) writes:
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>I have a 486 50 Mhz EISA machine with an Award bios, a
>BusTek BT-742a SCSI card and a 540 mb connor drive attached.
>I can boot off of the Tiny 386bsd floppy and run install just
>fine, but when I try to boot off of the HD, it hangs with the
>floppy drive spinning.
The Bustek is a [supposely] Adaptek compatable. The EISA Adaptek boards
(the 1740 & 1742) require being put in 154x mode for boot, and Julian's
SCSI driver and new boot blocks to keep going after that. I don't know if
the BusTek supports soft-configuration into "174x" mode, but it needs to if
you expect to use it.
>From what I have read here, it seems that
>I should recompile the kernel with julian's SCSI drivers, which I
>do not have the resources to do.
Yep, and the boot blocks.
>Is there an FTP site that I can
>get a dist.fs patched with the SCSI drivers?
Not with the boot blocks in the installtion cpio archives. You'd have to
rebuild the majority of the dist.fs, not just the kernel. I don't know
anyone who has done this yet.
> The Necromancer
You realize that by using this "handle", you are claiming you are the
"cracker" of a large number of Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga software
packages, right?
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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