BHA(4)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 BHA(4) — the Buslogic SCSI adapter driver, bestie 💖

okay so this page is about bha and bt — literally the same vibe, the Buslogic SCSI adapter driver ✨ (iykyk, the name lore is down in HISTORY, keep reading 🫶)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bha0 at isa? port 0x330 irq ? drq ?
bha* at eisa? slot ?
bha* at pci? dev ? function ?
scsibus* at bha?

like, yes, that's exactly how you wire it up — no notes 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

the bha driver is the main character for these Buslogic SCSI adapters, and it supports all three of these bad boys:

  • Buslogic ISA BT-445
  • Buslogic EISA BT-74x
  • Buslogic PCI BT-9[45][68]

that's the whole roster, no cap 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

cd(4), ch(4), intro(4), scsi(4), sd(4), st(4)

go read those too, they're iconic fr fr 🎀

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

the lore drop 🫶: back in NetBSD 1.2 and earlier, this driver was named bt, but it got renamed to bha in later releases. glow-up era 💅✨

💀 BUGS 💀

not everything is slay, so let's talk about it 😭

  • the Buslogic BT-930 is not supported in this driver. sorry bestie, it's just not invited to the party 🙈
  • the Buslogic BT-445S has a problem in early hardware and firmware revisions which prevents proper operation on a system with more than 16MB of RAM. so like, actually important 🚨 Hardware revision D and firmware revision 3.37 should be considered minimum requirements for using this board on systems configured in this manner.
real talk: if you're rocking more than 16MB of RAM on an old-revision BT-445S, it's giving chaos and it will not work properly. check your revisions first, bestie 🫶

okay that's the whole page, mwah 💖 this one came from Debian, dated November 29, 1994 — vintage, honestly iconic, periodt 🌈⭐

📦 where this page comes from