Subject: Re: Minimum MicroVAX 3100/20 kernel config?
To: maximum entropy <entropy@tardis.bernstein.com>
From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/04/1999 13:47:37
> >My reason for recompiling the kernel is that it is forcing me into a
> >floppy instead of sd2.  I am assuming it is configured for a VS3100
> >rather than a MV3100 (it is the SCSIDMA kernel 1.4L).  Dmesg shows
> >all 5 internal hard drives, but when I invoke sd2 for any reason, it
> >assumes a 1.2 meg floppy (e.g., in newfsing the thing).
> 
> If the dmesg output looks good, compiling a new kernel probably isn't
> going to help you.  Have you tried looking at the disklabel for that
> disk?  I suspect that you're confusing the issue by assuming this has
> anything to do with floppy disks.

I will double-check, tonight.  The drive is an RZ24, and it labelled
fine, I thought.  When I did a newfs /dev/sd2a and it came back as
a 1.2m file system, I was confused.  I will rewrite the label to it
or maybe do a test 75 to totally nuke it and start over on it.  Other
drives up the chain seemed fine, but the drive numbers were off by one.
Since they all worked fine on Ultrix, I can't think that it is hardware.
It could be a disklabel, or it could be my screwup....(probalby the latter).

I will write the disklabels and the dmesg output to floppy and bring it
in tomorrow, if I can't resolve the problem.

Thanks

Bob