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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Won't recognize SCSI drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.222304.10207@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1993Jan20.201015.12046@unlv.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:23:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.201015.12046@unlv.edu> ostgard@unlv.edu (Doug Ostgard) writes:
- >A friend has been unable to successfully install 386bsd, and so
- >asked me to post the following:
- >
- > - - -
- >Hardware Setup:
- >486DX-50 Local Bus
- >4MB RAM
- >GA-486US Motherboard
- >GA-201 Local Bus Video Controller
- >GA-400 Local Bus SCSI Controller
- >Maxtor LXT340S SCSI Hard Drive
- >
- >The problem is that the 386BSD kernal will not recognize that the hard drive
- >is present. The hard drive is partitioned with the 386BSD partition first,
- >and the DOS partition at the end. 200MB have been partitioned out for
- >386BSD with the remainder used for DOS. The GA-400 SCSI controller
- >user's manual says that the controller is hardware and software compatible
- >with Adaptec's AHA-1522 controller. Everything I have read about 386BSD
- >has implied 1542 compatibility. Does anyone know if the problem I am having
- >is related to the controller being incompatible? And is there anything I
- >can do about it in order to get my hard drive to be recognized.
- >
- >If necessary, we will try to modify the existing SCSI driver to work
- >for the AHA-1522. Any help in that area would also be appreciated.
-
- This is what you'd have to do. The 1522 is the retarded older brother
- of the 1542. I don't know (but suspect the answer is "no") if there
- is a driver for the 1522 using Julian's SCSI subsystem. If not, you
- will either have to hack away or get a different controller.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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