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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: problem with using second ide drive for swap
Date: 4 Aug 1993 12:15:39 +0200
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In article <RAM.93Aug3071303@xor.epi.wisc.edu>, ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty) writes:
|> janis:ram {1} dmesg
|> dmesg: magic number incorrect
Yupp, I got that as well
|> janis:ram {2} swapinfo
|> Floating exception
Got a floating exception with 'ps' and 'w'
|> Also when the new kernel boots it does not print a line about the second
|> ide drive. Something like wd0 at slave 0 = <CONNOR ...>. The original kernel
|> prints a line for both ide drives.
Can't remember...
Uh - this was using the boot blocks from pk0.2.3, system is running two ESDI
drives and swapping on both.
The problems went away when I used the old boot blocks again...
-Bernard