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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 01:49:44 -0500
From: Natty Rebel <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net>
To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Using Soren's new ATA driver
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Quoting Steve Price (sprice@hiwaay.net):
> What are the steps one needs to take in order to help test
> Soren's new ATA driver?  I tweaked the MAKEDEV script to create
> /dev/ad0* and added the lines to my kernel config file as
> suggested in Soren's commit message.  Both my HD and CD are
> found but when it goes to set the root device I get this:
> 
> ...
> changing root device to ad0s1a
> ad0s2: cannot find label (no disk label)
> ad0s3: cannot find label (no disk label)
> ad0s4: cannot find label (no disk label)
> /: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry
> panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
> 
> The obvious answer would be to edit the label for each of
> these slices to change the wd0* disk entries (which do exist)
> to say ad0* instead, but is that what I really need to do?
I don't think you need to do this just yet ... :)

> Or did I miss a step?
Back out your changes to MAKEDEV.  The new driver understands the wd0* entries ... 

> 
> Sorry for being so dense, but this change should most
> definitely make it into src/UPDATING along with the list of
> required steps.
> 
> I have to say though it was a glorious feeling to see the
> probe for my CD not take its usual 20+ seconds. :)
> 
> Thanks, Steve
> 
> 
> 

#;^)
-- 
natty rebel
harder than the rest ...


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