Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 01:49:44 -0500 From: Natty Rebel <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Soren's new ATA driver Message-ID: <19990305014944.A358@ikhala.tcimet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903042214500.28459-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>; from Steve Price on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:34:44PM -0600 References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903042214500.28459-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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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 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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