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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Newbie with EISA problems...
Message-ID: <1992Oct15.015803.8479@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
References: <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> <1992Oct14.162719.6326@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:58:03 GMT
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In article <1992Oct14.162719.6326@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@icarus.weber.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> rjh@selway.umt.edu (The Necromancer) writes:
>>
>>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.
hmmm, does it print ANYTHING?
if not then it's the bootblocks OR your bootsector points to the wrong
information. I have ported the MACH fdisk program to 386bsd
and if I can be sure that it is releasable I will drop it onto the net.
That way we can examine the bootblock directly.
It could be that the bootblocks are a little too 1542 specific
for the 1542... I might try it .. I run bt752a cards here as well as
a 1542b. (but I may have deleted the old bootblocks 8-)
>
>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.
>
actually the last 10-part scsi release contained a bustek 742a extended
mode driver. Bustek have their own extended mode, but it wasn't that
different top the aha1542 mode.. basically just 32bit pointers instead
of 24bit and a better scatter-gather specification.
>>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.
>From the sound of it you just need the bootblocks to get
yourself up and going.
I will post a uuencoded tar file of them.
>
julian
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