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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!grefen From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542CF w/NetBSD Date: 25 Jan 1994 10:04:38 GMT Organization: CONVEX Computer Corp, Richardson, TX USA Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2i2qrm$124@convex.convex.com> References: <CJusGC.A47@specgw.spec.co.jp> <759404599snz@brixham.demon.co.uk> <fenCK5now.7z3@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.convex.com In article <fenCK5now.7z3@netcom.com>, Fen Labalme <fen@netcom.com> wrote: >Martin Allard (mea@brixham.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: I am also having difficulties with the Adaptec 1542CF. >: The hardware is definitely ok. >: 386BSD 0.1 loads and runs fine, but NetBSD 0.9 will not >: install. It just says "device not configured". > >: Please can we have a definitive answer as to whether the >: 1542CF is supposed to work with NetBSD 0.9? >: After all, this is the current Adaptec model. I have a 1542A, and it's running fine with NetBSD09 and NetBSD-current. The only difference I've noticed from 386bsd is that the timeout value during the initial probing phase has been reduced. I was forced to move my Streamer to ID5 to be regognized (it isn't ready after the device reset when probed as ID2-4). I think your harddisk is a slow starter after an SCSI-Bus reset. Increase the timeout in scsiconf.c for probing or add a big delay after a reset in arch/i386/isa/ahaxxxx.c. You can test it switching your disk to ID6 and booting from floppy. If it finds the disk than it's this reset timeout problem. Stefan > > >I also get "device not configured" when trying to load NetBSD-0.9 >onto a '486 box with an Adaptek 1542CF. > >Can someone please give us a definitive answer? > >(So far, it looks like the answer is: go see if the store will > trade the 1542CF for a 1542C, an adapter that I know works...) > >-- >Fen >-- >Fen Labalme for EFF info, email <eff@eff.org> >Broadcatch Technologies for LPF info, email <league@ai.mit.edu> ><fen@netcom.com> for CPSR info, email <cpsr@cpsr.org> >415/731-1174 protect your freedoms! PGP Key ID: 1024/0AF8FD -- Stefan Grefen Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany grefen@convex.com Phone: +49-69-665270