Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:40:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Config problems Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006260039040.22478-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006252348510.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Well, I think maybe you have to put a number in if you want stuff wired down.. but basically I'm not sure if all the kinks have been worked out yet... ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > Hey chuck, except for the SMP stuff, your config looks mostly like mine (I > > only have a cpu line for i686) Let me know if there's anything I can do to > > help though. > > I'm about ready to post again, so this is good timing. > > I got the totally vague warning from gethints.pl to quiet by making my > disk section look much like the NOTES file. I then ran it by a brand new > config, and out spewed more than 25 errors. The entire section on wiring > down disks fails, and also all the stuff on npx, even tho that part was > copied verbatim from NOTES. > > I have an Adaptec dual channel controller on my motherboard, and I have 3 > disks and 2 cdroms, which I want to wire down. There's lines in the NOTES > examples whose meanings just make no sense to me. Let me do a bit of > quoting: > > [from NOTES] > hint.scbus.0.at="ahc0" > hint.scbus.1.at="ahc1" > hint.scbus.1.bus="0" > hint.scbus.3.at="ahc2" > hint.scbus.3.bus="0" > hint.scbus.2.at="ahc2" > hint.scbus.2.bus="1" > hint.da.0.at="scbus0" > hint.da.0.target="0" > hint.da.0.unit="0" > hint.da.1.at="scbus3" > hint.da.1.target="1" > hint.da.2.at="scbus2" > hint.da.2.target="3" > hint.sa.1.at="scbus1" > hint.sa.1.target="6" > > > What does ``hint.scbus.1.bus="0"'' mean? Do I have to stick a number > after the "device ahc" and "device scbus" lines (the NOTES file > doesn't). Are there any other oddities I ought to know of? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. > > New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up > fictitious words in the dictionary. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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