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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject: Re: device 0/0 0/1
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To add what I have learnt so far:

the 'standard' as (SCSI) driver only detects (attaches) SCSI devices
when they are used. So it was normal that I never saw my DAT tape during startup with the as driver.

Julian Elischer's SCSI driver probes the SCSI bus and attaches all devices during startup time.

Thanks to help from Julian Elischer and Paul Dokas I could track down the problem to the following:

Julian 'forced' me to check if really all patches were installed. I found out
that I was missing the patch of autoconf.c

Paul gave me advice to do a dd if=/dev/sd0b of=file which returned an error 6:
thus making me check the disklabel where I found that the b partition 
was marked unknown. I re-edited disklabel (disklabel -e -r) by hand and changed
that to swap. After that the swap problems (as0b device not configured) were gone. He also told me he was using the line 

root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1 and wd0

in his config file which I adapted also.

 

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--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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