My question is this: is anyone out there willing to finally fix this
somehow? It is important. Why? I am working on a new install system
for release 1.2, in which the user will insert a single floppy, boot,
and go. This is achieved by booting a compressed image, including a
ram disk root. I would be really, really nice if we only had to
maintain a single install kernel, and if the user didn't have to worry
about which install floppy to use. Load and go is the goal, and the
buslogic/adaptec screw is standing, unfortunately, in the way.

Since we have successfully eliminated the false positive problem,
would scoreboarding the detected devices help here at all?

Perry

ghudson@mit.edu writes:
> I misremembered Alistair's PR in my last message.  The device-level
> problem is that the Buslogic probe falsely recognizes an Adaptec card,
> not vice versa.  Alistair's patch to prevent this has *not* been
> checked in.  Even if it were, it would still true that either probe
> will smash the state of the other card if it runs after the other card
> has been detected.
> 
> Alistair's PR is #1418; it attempts to fix both problems, but
> (empirically) only the part that prevents false positives on the
> Buslogic probe actually worked.
> 
> 
>