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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!nobel.pacific.net.sg!rabbit!jstan From: tanjs <jstan@pacific.net.sg> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Buslogic 958 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:05:02 +0800 Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Lines: 36 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970224140316.3511A-100000@rabbit> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970219104748.2959A-100000@rabbit> <E5uA60.6Bn@spcuna.spc.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970220121623.3178A-100000-100000@rabbit> <E5w74o.MwG@spcuna.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rabbit.pacific.net.sg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: jstan@rabbit In-Reply-To: <E5w74o.MwG@spcuna.spc.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6084 On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Terry Kennedy wrote: > 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. yes, I tried and It work, thanks for the help. BTW, may I know why do we have to do this for PCI card. -JS > > 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 > +1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX) > >