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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: Newbie with EISA problems... Message-ID: <1992Oct15.091300.2489@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> <1992Oct14.162719.6326@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:13:00 GMT Lines: 60 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <1992Oct14.031829.13705@selway.umt.edu> rjh@selway.umt.edu (The Necromancer) writes: >> >>I have a 486 50 Mhz EISA machine with an Award bios, a >>BusTek BT-742a SCSI card and a 540 mb connor drive attached. >>I can boot off of the Tiny 386bsd floppy and run install just >>fine, but when I try to boot off of the HD, it hangs with the >>floppy drive spinning. I suggest that you get the new boot-blocks from the Julian "boot-kit" and try it with those, first. It might work for you, even without the new SCSI drivers. You were able to install 386BSD on your harddisk from the dist.fs floppy, I wasn't ! I don't know whether using just the new boot-blocks will work, but I can't see a reason why it shouldn't. Perhaps Julian can tell more about this ? I did just use it the other way around, first, i.e. Julians driver and old boot-blocks but couldn't boot with those, at all. >The Bustek is a [supposely] Adaptek compatable. The EISA Adaptek boards >(the 1740 & 1742) require being put in 154x mode for boot, and Julian's >SCSI driver and new boot blocks to keep going after that. I don't know if >the BusTek supports soft-configuration into "174x" mode, but it needs to if >you expect to use it. Yes, the BusTek 742 (in a certain mode) is compatible with the Adaptec 1542B, but not with the Adaptec 1742A (in enhanced mode which I am using) ! But that doesn't matter because there is a driver for the BusTek 742 in Julian's SCSI driver set. But that would perhaps not even necessary for you (see above). >>From what I have read here, it seems that >>I should recompile the kernel with julian's SCSI drivers, which I >>do not have the resources to do. I am not sure about that. >Yep, and the boot blocks. You will, at least, definitely need the new boot-blocks. >>Is there an FTP site that I can >>get a dist.fs patched with the SCSI drivers? >Not with the boot blocks in the installtion cpio archives. You'd have to >rebuild the majority of the dist.fs, not just the kernel. I don't know >anyone who has done this yet. Because I have a similar system (EISA with Adaptec 1742A) I build a new fixit.fs with the new boot-blocks and Julian's drivers (for the 1542B = 1742A standard mode) in the kernel. However, I don't have ftp-access, can't put it on a ftp-server and can't send the 1.2 MB of the fixit.fs disk (I think I have to pay for this mail and it would be very expensive in Switzerland !). In addition, because the new kernel was larger than the old one, I had to delete "stty" from the fixit.fs disk. Hope this helps, Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt