Well, I think maybe you have to put a number in if you want stuff wired
down.. but basically I'm not sure if all the kinks have been worked out
yet...
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
>
> > Hey chuck, except for the SMP stuff, your config looks mostly like mine (I
> > only have a cpu line for i686) Let me know if there's anything I can do to
> > help though.
>
> I'm about ready to post again, so this is good timing.
>
> I got the totally vague warning from gethints.pl to quiet by making my
> disk section look much like the NOTES file. I then ran it by a brand new
> config, and out spewed more than 25 errors. The entire section on wiring
> down disks fails, and also all the stuff on npx, even tho that part was
> copied verbatim from NOTES.
>
> I have an Adaptec dual channel controller on my motherboard, and I have 3
> disks and 2 cdroms, which I want to wire down. There's lines in the NOTES
> examples whose meanings just make no sense to me. Let me do a bit of
> quoting:
>
> [from NOTES]
> hint.scbus.0.at="ahc0"
> hint.scbus.1.at="ahc1"
> hint.scbus.1.bus="0"
> hint.scbus.3.at="ahc2"
> hint.scbus.3.bus="0"
> hint.scbus.2.at="ahc2"
> hint.scbus.2.bus="1"
> hint.da.0.at="scbus0"
> hint.da.0.target="0"
> hint.da.0.unit="0"
> hint.da.1.at="scbus3"
> hint.da.1.target="1"
> hint.da.2.at="scbus2"
> hint.da.2.target="3"
> hint.sa.1.at="scbus1"
> hint.sa.1.target="6"
>
>
> What does ``hint.scbus.1.bus="0"'' mean? Do I have to stick a number
> after the "device ahc" and "device scbus" lines (the NOTES file
> doesn't). Are there any other oddities I ought to know of?
>
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