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In article <3v664g$c93@clark.net>, Alan McConnell <alan@clark.net> wrote:
>Hi, everybody, we've bought such a card for my linux box at work.
...
>I think that the relevant part is: No BIOS32 extensions present . . . Sorry.
>Questions:  am I right?  ...

I think not.  I'm having similar problems, similar output, different
board.  This line appears when booting any system I've configured with
SCSI in it, both all functional configurations and my non-functional
configuration (at home).  It turns out that this is in the EATA-DMA
driver, whatever that is.  Specifically, in the find_PCI() routine.
I'm somewhat surprised that this appears, even though I didn't think I
was explicitly compiling PCI support in; but, oh, well.

Nevertheless, unless you have a PCI version of the EATA-DMA SCSI device
(I wish these modules were commented a bit better!), then I don't think
this is where you'll find your problem.

I did note that the driver talks about a "channel A" and a "channel B",
as if there were two channels - perhaps two SCSI busses on the one
board?  Are you sure that you have your Exabyte tape drive connected to
the correct channel?  Are you certain that you're using proper SCSI
cabling?  Are you certain that you've terminated the SCSI bus at both
ends - either on the board at each end, or externally, but not both?
(That is, at each end it must be terminated in one or the other place,
but not both; but how termination is done at one end doesn't affect how
it may be done at the other end.)

I apologize if these questions are ones that you've already asked
yourself several million times; but you didn't say in your post, and
there was a time that I wouldn't have known to ask them of myself.

-- 
Joe Yao				jsdy@cais.com - Joseph S. D. Yao