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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!kcbbs!root Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: bustek 742 driver Message-ID: <09360.22266.7974@kcbbs.gen.nz> From: dgd@kcbbs.gen.nz (David Dix) Date: 2 Mar 93 06:11:06 GMT References: <1993Feb28.033746.16370@tfs.com> Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand Lines: 29 julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: >For those of you who have been having problems with the bustek (buslogic?) >742a scsi adapter, I have been going over the changes submitted by >amurai in Japan in they seem very good. >I will merge these in with a few small changes I have an a new bt742a >driver will come out soon.. I'd just like to share a little joke of amurai's >with you all.. I have used Amurai's new Bustek 742 driver but the sad news is that my Bustek (Buslogic) 742a card still fails to complete the boot up process. It always reaches the same place "Checking for core dump" then proceeds to time out, repeating the time out errors until I reset the computer. One thing I did notice is that Amurai's code is for the firmware version 3.30. My 742a has version 3.31 (5000007-3.31 it says on the Eprom). I borrowed an older Bustek 742a from a friend's DOS system with 3.30 firmware and it booted and worked without any problems. Unfortunately I had to return this card. Before doing so I copied the firmware eprom and used this on my controller but this time the controller reported an internal error and refused to proceed. It now seems that Buslogic may have changed one or more of their vlsi chips on the 742a and this has made it not compatible with previous versions of the 742a. I am still waiting on my Buslogic supplier to obtain a technical (programming) manual for this 742a. I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who has managed to get a 742a with firmware 3.31 or later working with 386BSD.