Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 13:05:50 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Tape device wt0 (was Re: Compiling custom kernal problems) Message-ID: <199705032030.NAA18123@train.tgci.com>
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I guess I'm going to try a low level format of the disk, or maybe just put a scsi one in to take care of the problem below-- (Thanks to Wolfram Schneider for your comments--your note's on another machine so I'm not replying to it...) But a couple questions (and I'm new to BSD, please!!!): I've a Wangtec qic-02 cartrigde tape and lots of tapes and saw that fbsd supported it so I installed it. Looking in the /dev directory, I didn't see wt0, although I enabled support for it and it was seen on boot. So, I thought I needed a custom kernal. That failed as below. I also tried MAKEDEV wt0. No errors, but didn't see the device. Did see rwt0. Can I write to this? How? Problem: I can't compile a new kernal 'cause apparently my disk is hosed. To fix it, I'd really like to backup my system and then format the disk. But I can't get the tape to work without a new kernal (is this true? I have my doubts!). Is this Catch 22? <grin> It's not all that serious, but I would like to backup if possible first, and any help/pointers/comments would *really* be appreciated! Cheers, Riley > From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:22:03 +0000 > Subject: (Fwd) Compiling custom kernal problems > Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com > Priority: normal > My security log output has a bunch of bad file descriptor messages > (sample below) which would seem to me to be the cause of my > kernal compile failure. > > A couple questions. File descriptors would seem to be low level file > system type objects intimately related to the partition/disk? > > And, would bad desciptors be an indication of a failing disk? (This > isn't the first time, but is definitely the worst I've seen.) > > This machine wasn't critical, but is about to become so. The disk is > a Maxtor IDE. 'Spose I oughta put a scsi in it, but still need to > know *if* it's the disk failing, or what? > > Again, thanks for the help. > > Cheers, > > Riley > > Partial output: > > find: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/version.c: Bad file descriptor > find: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/xcoffout.c: Bad file descriptor > find: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/eg/sysvipc: Bad file descriptor find: > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/x2p: Bad file descriptor find: > /usr/src/games: Bad file descriptor find: /usr/src/lib/csu: Bad file > descriptor find: /usr/src/lib/libc/db/man: Bad file descriptor find: > /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc: Bad file descriptor > > > > > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > From: Self <chaos> > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Compiling custom kernal problems > Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com > Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:22:55 > > I'm trying to compile my first kernal in fbsd and getting some errors > that perhaps someone could help me with. > > > Here's the output: > > bash# make depend > errfil > In file included from /usr/include/ctype.h:51, > from ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c:47: > /usr/include/runetype.h:42: machine/ansi.h: Not a directory > In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:43, > from ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c:48: > /usr/include/sys/types.h:48: machine/endian.h: Not a directory > /usr/include/sys/types.h:99: machine/ansi.h: Not a directory > /usr/include/sys/types.h:100: machine/types.h: Not a directory > In file included from ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c:48: > /usr/include/stdio.h:48: machine/ansi.h: Not a directory > In file included from ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c:49: > /usr/include/string.h:38: machine/ansi.h: Not a directory > In file included from ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c:50: > /usr/include/stdlib.h:39: machine/ansi.h: Not a directory > > and errfil has this in it: > > cc -Wall -o aic7xxx_asm ../../dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_asm.c > *** Error code 1 > > I don't see any obvious (to me) problems with the config file, > attached. > > tia, > > Riley > > Attachments: > D:\tmp\CHARMED > >
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