Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hacker!steve
From: steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: AHA1542B & MiniScribe 9380S & The Friggin Floppy Drive
Keywords: "NO BASIC ROM" / Cannot find Floppy Drive A
Message-ID: <197@hacker.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 12:23:02 GMT
Organization: HaL Systems, Burke, VA
Lines: 19

The Subject line says it all.  I can't for the life of me get my floppy 
drive to work off of the 1542B.  The Hard disk seems to be just fine, although 
I won't know that until I can put something bootable on it.  I suspect it's
one of the jumpers on the 1542 that needs to be changed, or something in the
BIOS (AMI on my AMAX386/20 Motherboard).  If anybody has done this let me 
know.  Anytime I try a new configuration, the 1542 BIOS does its message thing
then the message of NO BASIC ROM or Cannot find Floppy Drive A appears and I can
get no farther.  I can rule out a cable problem, because I'm using it now on
on my MFM controller.  Oh, and all the time that the system is going through 
its BIOS routines, from power on to power off, the FD access light stays on.
Do I need a special cable to use with the 1542B for my floppy?  Please help.

In an unrelated vane.  Does anyone out there know how to get the AMAX386/20
Motherboard/AMI BIOS to recognize banks 2 and 3 of RAM?  I just installed
4 MB additional, and would very much like to use it.  Thanks in advance for
any help you can give. -- SMY
-- 
Stephen M. Youndt       /   "Remember, no matter where you go, 
uunet!hacker!steve     /     there you are."  -- B. Banzai