On Tue, 14 Feb 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > ok I've recently made the change from the Adaptec 1542CF to the Buslogic 
> > BT-445s and new problems arise.
> > 
> > I can boot a kernel from the scsi.. mount the scsi when booted from floppy..
> > but I can't boot kernel from the scsi and then mount root from the scsi.
> > 
> > can anyone shed some light on this prob.
> > 
> > kernel loads
> > does usual probes and finds bt0 ...
> 
> You have a seriously old version of the BIOS/firmware on your card,
> I recommend you call BusLogic and get some new proms.  You really want
> bios version 3.37 or later for a 445S.

ok after a little luck in finding another machine (locally) with a 
buslogic card inside I was able to figure out that the problem appeared 
to be with the ordering of the device drivers?? go figure.. after I 
rebuilt my kernal (on said borrowed machine - luckily) I was able to boot 
and work from sd0 just like it was the only drive in the system..

has anyone got any ideas why this is so?

anyway just thought a few people would like to know what the bug finally 
appeared to be.

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James Lever
Prentice Centre, University of Queensland