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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcuna.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: Buslogic 958
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:19:36 GMT
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tanjs <jstan@pacific.net.sg> writes:
> Once the machine boot up, the bios detected all the above items and
> pass the booting process to BSD2.1 bootdisk. The BSD2.1 bootdisk
> cannot detect the BT958 (but no problem for ncr SCSI II) and failed
> the installation process.
First, make sure the BT958 is detected by your PC's BIOS (make sure you
get a BusLogic banner on the screen during the BIOS scan).
Next, make sure that the BT958 has its "ISA compatible I/O port" enabled
(set to Primary instead of Secondary or None). You do this in the BusLogic
setup (press Control-B while the BusLogic banner is displayed). I forget
which menu it's in, but it should be easy to find.
Technical note: it isn't absolutely essential to do this - you can say
"-dev bha0 port=6000" (assuming your PCI BIOS configures the card at I/O
address 6000) in either boot.default or during interactive booting. This
is needed to support more than two bha adapters.
When I get some spare time, I'll have the bha driver scan the PCI space
as well as the ISA space - that's the item #3 I mentioned in my previous
reply.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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