1.3? We're only up to 1.1 . Please verify that you got the boot floppies via FTP from the unstable/disks-i386 directory on one of our FTP sites, not from a CD or anywhere else.
That BusLogic interface should work. The driver should look for it at one of the addresses 0x330, 0x334, 0x230, 0x234, 0x130, 0x134. Is the kernel saying anything that might be related to the BusLogic or SCSI in general when it boots? If so, please copy the output for us. Thanks Bruce