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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:13:19 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject:   Re: wrong unit number when wiring down st0
Message-ID:  <199611052113.WAA25992@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9611051600.AA07042@bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu> from Tim Pierce at "Nov 5, 96 10:00:34 am"

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As Tim Pierce wrote:

> The DAT deck is properly set up as target 2 (or so says the little
> number window on the back of the box), and I'm pretty sure that
> this syntax worked in 2.0.5.  However, when I booted my machine,
> the kernel assigned the tape drive to st1, not st0.  Removing `at
> stbus0 target 2' and recompiling the kernel corrected the
> problem.

Switches on the back are a primary source of mistrust.

Why didn't you simply quote us the boot message for the tape?  It
should clearly identify on which target ID it has been found.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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