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1 total messages Started by Charles Carlson Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:56
Why does ISC hang on boot w/AHA1542A?
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Author: Charles Carlson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:56
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I just picked up an Adaptec 1542A and I'm trying to get it to work with
ISC 3.2 2.2.1 as a secondary controller. (IDE drives are used for boot).

The system comes up with Booting.... the LED on the SCSI drive as well as
on the controller come on, and off a few times, then the controller light
comes on again for a second or two, then goes off, and the system just
hangs.  If I power off the SCSI drive and reboot, the controller light
behaves the same way, then the system boots normally, with AHA init reporting
0 SCSI devices.

I have tried this with the BIOS both enabled and disabled, same result.
Rom version is 3.02 dated 1988.

I have the controller set to all the defaults, ie, IRQ 11, iobase 330,
rom at DC00, DMA channel 5, floppy disabled, etc.  

The controller works just fine as a primary controller under DOS.

When I tried to build a kernel for AHA, I got several errors saying it couldn't
find any of the routines for the Future Domain (ie, FDC_INTR, FDC_CTL_INIT)
and the PS/2 devices first referenced in /etc/conf/pack.d/dsk/Space.o.  
Deleting those references in Space.c made the kernel build OK, this obviously
isn't the proper solution so something else must be wrong.

Any idea as to what I did wrong?? 

Thanks....
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