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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone using Adaptec 1542C with 386BSD?
Date: 6 Apr 1993 10:03:14 GMT
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References: <1993Apr1.125044.13968@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Apr5.130105.25114@bradford.ac.uk> <tcchang.21.734088963@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw> <C517FB.8J9@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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In article <C517FB.8J9@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
|> some reason the 1542C needs to have the mailboxes set up before this command
|> will work.  Once I added a command to the linux kernel to set up the mailboxes,
|> the 1542C is recognized and works just fine.  I have not idea if this will help
|> you with 386bsd, but I just thought that I would mention it.

Hmmm.... I seem to recall somebody around here saying while trying to boot
off the 1542C there were messages on the console about "mailbox not found"

Just to second the argument...

-Bernard