Quoting Steve Price (spr...@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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
