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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!roger From: roger@austin.ibm.com (roger) Subject: BSD44 on a SPARC questions Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Message-ID: <CG8p31.zJK@austin.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 19:35:11 GMT Organization: IBM AWD, Austin Lines: 45 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. -- -- Roger Florkowski IBM Personal Systems Programming AIX RISC System/6000 Network Communications Support 11400 Burnet Road Internet Mail: roger@wizards.austin.ibm.com Austin, TX 78752 email: roger@rogerf.austin.ibm.com