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From: roger@austin.ibm.com (roger)
Subject: BSD44 on a SPARC questions
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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 19:35:11 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin
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I recently got bsd4.4 running on a SPARC IPC w/8 meg of ram.  I have
a couple of questions:

1) what is causing the following messages:
sparc44% dmesg
swap_pager_io: wait on swbuf for f80f44e0 (256)
swap_pager_io: wait on swbuf for f80eb430 (256)
swap_pager_io: wait on swbuf for f80f3130 (256)
swap_pager_io: wait on swbuf for f80ee2e8 (256)
swap_pager_io: wait on swbuf for f80f3dd8 (256)
<...>

    I looked at the kernel and it wasn't obvious to me if I was
    running into a problem or not... can someone enlighten me?

    My machine does 'hang' abit when I rlogin/telnet to it,
    but I haven't determined yet if those messages happen
    at that time, or if I'm dealing with some kerberos
    authentication timeouts.

2) compiling the kernel:  If you dont define DIAGNOSTIC, then
    /sys/sparc/sparc/intr.c wont compile, it is missing the
    defines for I_L3, I_GO, and I_L0.  Will the sparc code
    run if I dont define DIAGNOSTIC and move those statements
    inside an if-def for DIAGNOSTIC ?

3) attaching another SCSI drive:
    Do I have to use SunOS to make partitions on another SCSI
    drive ?  I was hoping that once BSD was bootstrapped,
    I'd be able to setup another hard-drive and work from
    there, but that doesn't look like thats the case.  The
    DKIO ioctls only have support for reading, and not setting.
    Although thats in sun_dikllabel.c.  If running with the
    sunos compat code, can I instead just use the BSD diskklabel
    to setup a second drive ?

Any help would be appreciated!
    ROger.

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