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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Won't recognize SCSI drive
Message-ID: <1993Jan20.232120.7709@tfs.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:21:20 GMT
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In article <1993Jan20.201015.12046@unlv.edu> ostgard@unlv.edu (Doug Ostgard) writes:
>GA-201 Local Bus Video Controller
>GA-400 Local Bus SCSI Controller
>Maxtor LXT340S SCSI Hard Drive
>
>The problem is that the 386BSD kernal will not recognize that the hard drive
>is present.  The hard drive is partitioned with the 386BSD partition first,
>and the DOS partition at the end.  200MB have been partitioned out for
>386BSD with the remainder used for DOS.  The GA-400 SCSI controller 
>user's manual says that the controller is hardware and software compatible
>with Adaptec's AHA-1522 controller.  Everything I have read about 386BSD
>has implied 1542 compatibility.  Does anyone know if the problem I am having
>is related to the controller being incompatible?  And is there anything I
>can do about it in order to get my hard drive to be recognized.

There is no driver for the 1522
It does not DMA like the 1542 and has a considerably differnet interface
(I don't know if it has a processor on board like the 1542 does,
but possibly not.

>
>    - - -
>
>If necessary, we will try to modify the existing SCSI driver to work
>for the AHA-1522.  Any help in that area would also be appreciated.

It'll be a big job.. 

julian
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