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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!roberto From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problem with Julian's SCSI drivers Date: 30 Sep 1993 17:20:40 GMT Organization: A Private 386BSD Usenet Site Lines: 38 Message-ID: <28f4hm$51d@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <CD7EyC.4Ax@nas.nasa.gov> <CDErsF.1Cx@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <CDEzuF.519@veda.is> <27aein$jlr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <CDIrxy.4oH@veda.is> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Adam David (adam@veda.is) wrote: > I forgot to mention that there is also support for hardwiring device numbers. > While we have a monolithic kernel, it is perhaps a bad idea to read in config > info from different files during boot time. This will/may change when there > are load/unloadable device drivers. Sorry, this is way off topic :-) Speaking of Julian's drivers, I installed FreeBSD yesterday. Thanks a lot for all for that fine piece of software... The installation script is great, everything is very clean, congratulations ! But during the installation, I encountered a few problems : 1 have a Archive/Maynard 2 GB DAT. It is identified without any problem by the autoconfig code, fine. But I cannot read anything from it unless I write something to it before. I have a complete backup of my 386BSD setup in 3 dumpfiles and it was unable to read anything from it. I've set the density (st -f /dev/rst0 high_dnsty 19) and used the hnrst0 device to read from the tape. Nothing, it always reported that my blocksize was not good (even though I've put it with restore -b), that there were errors reading from the tape and so on. Until I put a fresh cartridge and write to it. I was sweating the first time it refused to read my tape... Now all is installed and it keeps doing it... i.e. Verify tape and initialize maps Tape read error: Input/output error I know the tape is fine, if I write something to another cartridge and put the old one back I will be able to read it. Weird... My setup is 486DX33, 16 MB, Adaptec 1542B + Micropolis 1624 640 MB + Archive Python 2 GB DAT. Any thought ? -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGPprint: 0023C49D 2E70CE5A 26708662 B8E8D709