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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: Newbie with EISA problems... 
Message-ID: <1992Oct15.091300.2489@autelca.ascom.ch>
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
References: <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> <1992Oct14.162719.6326@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:13:00 GMT
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) 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.
I suggest that you get the new boot-blocks from the Julian "boot-kit"
and try it with those, first. It might work for you, even without the
new SCSI drivers. You were able to install 386BSD on your harddisk from
the dist.fs floppy, I wasn't !
I don't know whether using just the new boot-blocks will work, but I can't
see a reason why it shouldn't.
Perhaps Julian can tell more about this ?
I did just use it the other way around, first, i.e. Julians driver and
old boot-blocks but couldn't boot with those, at all.

>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.
Yes, the BusTek 742 (in a certain mode) is compatible with the Adaptec 1542B,
but not with the Adaptec 1742A (in enhanced mode which I am using) !
But that doesn't matter because there is a driver for the BusTek 742 in
Julian's SCSI driver set. But that would perhaps not even necessary for you
(see above).

>>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.
I am not sure about that.

>Yep, and the boot blocks.
You will, at least, definitely need the new 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.
Because I have a similar system (EISA with Adaptec 1742A) I build a new
fixit.fs with the new boot-blocks and Julian's drivers (for the 1542B =
1742A standard mode) in the kernel. However, I don't
have ftp-access, can't put it on a ftp-server and can't send the
1.2 MB of the fixit.fs disk (I think I have to pay for this mail and it would
be very expensive in Switzerland !).
In addition, because the new kernel was larger than the old one, I had to
delete "stty" from the fixit.fs disk.

Hope this helps,

Norbert.
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