"Helge MEINHARD, Chorus, CERN-ECP" <meinhard@afsmail.cern.ch>
writes:
> Is there any special meaning to the 'b'
>partition of the system disk assigned by the NetBSD kernel? 

Have you tried doing a ``pstat -s'' to confirm that the kernel
isn't trying to swap on the B partition?

>Again nope... It's exactly the same with mount -r. The miniroot I'm using 
>is the one dated May 31st, 1995, from gregorio.stanford.edu. I then tried 
>with an Exabyte, but although the special files in /dev are there, the 
>/netbsd kernel on the said miniroot does not seem to have tape support 

I don't understand. There are tape in the configuration file for the
kernel on the miniroot (see below).  If someone wants to send me a
SCSI tape drive :), I can check them out ...

Maybe it's just that the device inodes are missing from /dev?

(taken from sys/arch/pmax/conf/GENERIC.pmax)



master		sii0	at nexus0 csr ?
  [...disks... at targets 0-4...]
tape		tz0	at sii0 drive 5 slave 0
tape		tz1	at sii0 drive 6 slave 0
master		asc0	at nexus0 csr ?
  [...disks... at targets 0-4...]
tape		tz0	at asc0 drive 5 slave 0
tape		tz1	at asc0 drive 6 slave 0