From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 22:37:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA25464 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:37:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA25459 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:37:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA14130; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199711180637.WAA14130@austin.polstra.com> To: "Kent S. Gordon" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with BusTek SCSI controller and CD-ROM In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:19:59 CST." <199711180219.UAA05442@chess.inetspace.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:37:08 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I had similar problems with a VL Bus machine and a BusLogic BT445. > At least your will boot with hard drives only. It had only two hard > drive and no other SCSI devices. It stopped working on -current > in April. It work in 2.2.2, but not 2.2.5 (It seemed to break > somewhere in 2.2-STABLE around June). Hmm, that's interesting. Mine doesn't work even with the 2.2.2 boot floppy. I have a feeling our problems are different. I've about decided that the firmware on my controller is just too old. I think I bought it in 1991, almost before there even were any SCSI CD-ROM drives in the PC market. I found an old DOS driver in the museum section of the BusLogic web site. That made it work OK under DOS (CD-ROM too). I used that to install Windows 95 (don't ask). But after Windows 95 was running, it didn't see the CD-ROM drive any more. I updated the driver to the current Windows 95 version, which killed the whole thing even for hard disk accesses. I guess I'll just turn that old machine into a firewall or a -current trashbox. :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth