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BusLogic Family SCSI Adapter Device Driver by Tomas Hurka, Hukatronic tom@hukatronic.cz Ondrej Cada, OCSoftware ocs@earn.cvut.cz Version 1.13 of BusLogic Family SCSI Adapter Device Driver for NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel Processors OVERVIEW: BusLogic Family SCSI adapter device driver lets you take advantage of the following SCSI adapters: Manufacturer Adapter PC Bus Bus Logic 445S VL-Bus Bus Logic 747S EISA The driver replaces the NeXT's universal Adaptec154xDriver on mentioned cards. Driver uses 32-bit addressing mode, therefore the disk performance is a little bit better on computers with more than 16 MB RAM. The increase of the performance is according to DrivePerformance.app about 8% on 486DX2/66 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GB TOSHIBA MK538FB SCSI-2 drive. WARRANTY: THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. COPYING: The BusLogicFamily is shareware. You can freely distribute without changing or removing any parts of the package. If you found the driver reliable, please, register the driver. For more detail see document Registration.rtf. Changes between version 1.0 and 1.13: 1. The driver was tested and works with these version of firmware on BT445S: 3.31C, 3.36, 3.37. 2. The driver was tested and works with these version of firmware on BT747S: 3.37. 3. The driver works correctly with Toshiba XM-3401 CD-ROM and CDPlayer.app. The only thing you need is a program called XAmode, which switch TOSHIBA to XAmode. This also enables you to read KodakPhotoCD. XAmode is available form anonymous ftp ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/next/Tools . 4. Better timeout handling. 5. Copying policy of the driver was changed from freeware to shareware. 6. The name of the driver was changed from BusLogicBT445S to BusLogicFamily. Release 1.0 notes: 1. We have found at least one particular configuration (Gateway 4DX2/66V board, PAS-16 sound adapter, Logitech bus mouse, ATI UltraPro graphics, SEAGATE ST3600N hard disk) where this driver doesn't work properly. Anyway, even the NeXT's universal Adaptec154x Driver doesn't work with the same configuration. Should you possibly happen to have any problems, we will very appreciate to be informed, so as to be able to fix the problems. Release 1.13 notes: 1. The BusLogic BT946C PCI card does not work yet. :-( INSTALLATION: These instructions show you how to install the BusLogic SCSI adapter device driver on an Intel-based computer running NEXTSTEPä Release 3.2. The driver is distributed as file named BusLogicFamily_1.13.tar.Z. 1. If you received the BusLogicFamily_1.13.tar.Z file via NeXTmailä or downloaded via FTP or another electronic source, place a copy of the file in a location where you can access it when you log in as root. 2. Log in as root. Only the superuser, root, can install the device drivers. If you're not sure how to log in as root, see your system administrator. 3. Double-click the BusLogicFamily_1.13.tar.Z file and uncompress and unarchive it. 4. Double-click the BusLogicFamily.config. It automatically launch Configure.app and copy the driver into /NextLibary/Devices directory. 5. Add Buslogic driver as SCSI device and configure IRQ and port address according to setting of the card. The default setting is the same as Adaptec setting and should be OK for most cases. 6. Save configuration and quit Configure.app. 7. Reboot computer. INSTALLATION of the NSFIP from the scratch with BusLogic card: These instructions show you how to install NEXSTEP with BusLogic SCSI adapter and BusLogicFamily device driver on an Intel-based computer running NEXTSTEPä Release 3.2. The driver is distributed as file named BusLogicFamily_1.13.tar.Z. 1. The driver BusLogicFamily.config must be on a floppy in directory /usr/Devices/ 2. boot from installation floppy with CD-ROM inserted in the CD-ROM drive 3. At boot:, type: mach_kernel "Boot Drivers"="PS2Keyboard IDE" (IDE is only necessary when using an IDE harddisk) 4. select your language 5. When you are prompted: The following SCSI adapter.....If you have a different kind...insert the floppy disk... etc. insert the floppy with the Buslogic driver, type: 1 [RETURN] and select the driver from the list 6. Proceed as normal 7. When the computer reboots for the first time, insert the installation disk again 8. At "boot" prompt, type : mach_kernel -s "Boot Drivers"="PS2Keyboard IDE" to start the computer in single user mode 9. Repeat step 3 (afterwards, let the driver floppy remain in the drive) 10. When reaching the single user shell (prompt #), type: # driverLoader D=Floppy # mount -n /dev/hd0a (or /dev/sd0a for SCSI) /disk # mount -n /dev/fd0a /floppy # cp -r /floppy/usr/Devices/BusLogicFamily.config /disk/usr/Devices # reboot 11. When the screen blanks out, remove the driver floppy for rebooting from harddisk 12. When, while rebooting, the system reaches the "boot" prompt, type: mach_kernel "Boot Drivers"="PS2Keyboard IDE BusLogicFamily" 13. Continue the installation as normal 14. When the Configure.app is launched, choose the BusLogic driver as SCSI driver Notes about hardware setting of BT-445S: 1. In order to achieve a 10MBytes/sec transfer rate, the 'Maximim Synchronous Data Rate Allowed' option must be enabled (switch 7 -Off) and the 'Adapter Initiate Synchronous Negotiation must be enabled (switch€6€-€Off). 2. Some older SCSI drives that can only support a data rate of up to 5 MB/s may misinform the BT-445S during the negotiation that it can transfer data above 5 MB/s. When the BT-445S is connected to such drives, 5 MB/s option must be used (switch 7 - On) . Otherwise, it will cause data transfer failure! BUGS: Send all bug reports and any other suggestion via e-mail to tom@hukatronic.cz. Please, don't forget to write us your configuration. Special thanks to: Thyl Engelhardt <gast@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Denis Gesbert <dgesbert@cdphot.u-strasbg.fr> Axel Habermann <kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de> Gilles Leguebe BusLogic Europe Tibor Lorincz <clt@kiss.sk> Robert Naumann <rna@software-ag.de> Peter Pflaeging <Peter.Pflaeging@aeneas.adv.magwien.gv.at> Conntact: Tomas Hurka Ondrej Cada Hukatronic (H.C.C.) OCSoftware Kankovskeho 8 Pernerova 61 182 00 Praha 8 186 00 Praha 8 Czech Republic Czech Republic Email: tom@hukatronic.cz Email:ocs@earn.cvut.cz
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