From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 5 13:24:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25707 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25598 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA26115; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:21:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA29030; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:21:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id WAA25992; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:13:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611052113.WAA25992@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: wrong unit number when wiring down st0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:13:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu (Tim Pierce) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9611051600.AA07042@bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu> from Tim Pierce at "Nov 5, 96 10:00:34 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)