Hi All,

I just got my replacement SCSI card in today.  I
slipped it in the slot and booted her up and to my
surprise the bios didn't show any error messages, and
after the main bios screen disappeared, the card's
bios screen appeared.  The card was also recognized by
NetBSD and any drive I attach to it also!

Since it is working, I would like to format the scsi
hard drive and the iomega zip drive I have attached to
it so NetBSD would recognize them as usual hard
drives. How would I go about doing that?

Thank you all again for all the troubleshooting tips! 
Without them, I wouldn't have been fully sure that the
card was dead on arrival.

Thanks,
J Silverman   
--- JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Thanks for sending me the settings on how you got
> the
> card working.  However, they still don't seem to get
> the card recognized by the OS.  Since I cannot even
> enter the card's bios by pressing the Ctrl and A
> keys
> during the boot process to change the DMA settings,
> I
> will be returning the card as DOA.
> 
> Thank you for the info though; it will be helpful
> when
> I get a replacement card.
> 
> J Silverman
> --- Steve Davidson <smd@scshome.net> wrote:
> > JS,
> > 
> > Here's what I did to get this working:
> > 
> > Card one:
> > 
> > 	All switches off (open)
> > 
> > 	DMA set to 5 (default) after typing Control/A
> > 
> > Card two:
> > 
> > 	Switches 2, 5, and 6 on (closed)
> > 
> > 	Switch 5 disables the floppy controller (AHA-1542
> > series only)
> > 
> > 	If switches 6, 7, and 8 are on, the BIOS hook
> will
> > be disabled.
> > 
> > 	DMA set to 6 after typing Control/A
> > 
> > A good source of information about this series can
> > be found at:
> > 
> > 
> >
>
http://www.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/aha1540cf_ig.pdf
> > 
> > If you follow the information on page 5, section 7
> > you will see what I did
> > with the switches.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 			-Steve
> > 
> > 
> > 

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