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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does the BusLogic 545S working with FreeBSD? Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:28:47 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2is8cf$q66@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: BusLogic, SCSI, FreeBSD In article <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com>, J. Shan Bell <jbell@max.cybernet.com> wrote: > > I originally was using an Adaptec 1542 but I ran into the > > 16Mb of RAM problem. First of all, it's not an Adaptec problem that you can only use <= 16MB or RAM, it's an ISA bus problem. So, getting a different ISA card buys you the new features of that ISA card (the Buslogic maybe faster, I don't know), but it will NOT get around the hardware limitation of DMA past 16MB. > So I picked up a BusLogic 545S. With the > same settings as the Adaptec it won't boot up. I set the AHADEBUG > directive to get the following messages. What's going on here? You need the Buslogic kernel and not the Adaptec kernel. The two cards are different enough that they require two different device drivers. Try using the kc-bt-floppy (bt == Bustek, which is now Buslogic) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.