Subject: Re: vnd
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/02/1997 17:09:07
Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 13:21:09 +0100 (BST) 
>  prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) wrote:
> 
>  > Does anyone have any idea what I should do next? BTW this all worked
>  > with the old version of vnconfig, before it had a -t option...
>  > 
>  > % vnconfig -t floppy3 -v -c /dev/vnd0a ramdisk-12G.fs
>  > vnconfig: /dev/rvnd0a: Device not configured
> 
> What port?  If i386, use vnd0d, or everywhere else, vnd0c, when you configure
> the vnd itself.

(It was i386)

> Hm, I think I might have overlooked this when I made the changes to these
> Makefiles... I will fix it today.

Great, thank you!

Patrick

FYI:
admin% pwd
/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk
admin% ls -l ramdisk-12G.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1474560 Jul  2 17:04 ramdisk-12G.fs
admin% vnconfig -t floppy3 -v -c /dev/vnd0d ramdisk-12G.fs
/dev/vnd0d: 1474560 bytes on ramdisk-12G.fs using geometry 512/18/2/80
admin% newfs -m 0 -o space -i 5120 -c 80 /dev/rvnd0d floppy3
/dev/rvnd0d:    2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
        1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (80 c/g, 1.41MB/g, 320 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32,
newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process
newfs: /dev/rvnd0d: can't rewrite disk label