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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!phoenix!gpw10 From: gpw10@phoenixcd.amdahl.com (Gary Ward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: SCSI Tape and X11R5 questions Message-ID: <38P=02TO22ND01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 16 Sep 92 16:56:57 GMT References: <47606@shamash.cdc.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 63 In article <47606@shamash.cdc.com>, pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes: > I have two rather basic 8-) questions about 386BSD 0.1: > > 1) I want to build X11 preferably R5 for my 386. I've increased > the swap to 24MB, applied as many patches as I could find and > now I'm stuck. I know that I have to get XFree86 (probably from > agate), but do I also need the MIT X11R5 distribution? My > question is basically: what source do I need to ftp to build > X11R5 on my 386-40 (TVGA 512K, God I hope that there's a driver > for this card!) > > 2) I've got a Archive VP 150e tape drive (QIC150 SCSI tape) attached > to my computer via an Adaptec 1542B. There is also a 330MB disk > on the adaptec. I want to be able to do backups to tape, but I > can't get the system to admit that the tape is hooked up. There > is no output for the tape during boot, just for the hard disk. > I assume that I have to rebuild the kernel with a new config that > tells where the tape is, but I have no idea what I have to put > there. In general, how to I hook up my QIC150 SCSI tape drive > to my Adaptec 1542B? > This seems to confuse a lot of people. The SCSI driver does not spit out messages for devices until they are accessed. Since the boot process does not need the tape drive, it is not mentioned. Try cat-ing to or from the raw device and you should see an attach message from the driver. I currently have the same tape drive hooked to my system and it works fine. Note that there are several patches to the SCSI driver for tape handling. I don't know if these are included in Terry's 20 patches or not. Another "gotcha" (in the FAQ and Buglist, I believe) is that the device nodes in /dev for ras4* have the wrong major device number and therefore do not work. They need to be remade, (especially if your tape drive is at SCSI address 4.) From the buglist: # cd /dev # rm /dev/ras4* # mknod ras4a c 13 32 # mknod ras4d c 13 35 > Thanks for the help! > > Paul Dokas > pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com > > BTW many thanks to Terry Lambert for the patchkit! I applied all 19 > patches to my system and rebuilt it in less than 30 minutes. > When are the rest of the ~30 patches coming out? > -- > #include <std.disclaimer> > #define FULL_NAME "Paul Dokas" > #define EMAIL "pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com" > /* we are realizing infinite possibilities in exchange for our soul */ -- +------------------------+---------------------------+ | Gary Ward | Amdahl Corporation | | gpw10@cd.amdahl.com | 1250 East Arques Avenue | | Phone : (408)746-8865 | P.O. Box 3470 M/S 142 | | | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 | +------------------------+---------------------------+