cdc disk on uVAXII
Yedidya Israel
yedidya at bimacs.BITNET
Thu May 19 00:21:09 AEST 1988
Hello wizards.
We are running 4.3 BSD on uVAXII and installed a new cdc disk.
Its controller is simulating uda50 and identify itself as an ra80. To
maximize disk utilization we made all partitions sit in intergral
cylinders except partitions a and b. We gave "a" the standard of 15884
and b - 33616 (not 33440) so that d will begin on a limit of a cyl.
This is the fstab entry (of course we updated /sys/vaxuba/uda.c
accordingly)
# CDC-9720-736 is an ra80 compatible.
cdc9720-736|CDC-736|CDC-9720:\
:ty=winchester:ns#50:nt#15:nc#1633:so:\
:pa#15884:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:pb#33616:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
:pc#1224750:\
:pd#197250:bd#4096:fd#512:\
:pe#244500:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:pf#244500:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:pg#244500:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
:ph#244500:bh#8192:fh#1024:
We have already 2 rd53 disks + 2 rx50 disktte drives. The
configuration file looks like that
..
controller uda0 at uba? csr 0172150 vector udintr
disk ra0 at uda0 drive 0
disk ra1 at uda0 drive 1
disk ra2 at uda0 drive 2
disk ra3 at uda0 drive 3
controller uda1 at uba? csr 0160334 vector udintr
disk ra4 at uda1 drive 0
..
System recognizes all devices in autoconf perfectly. But we have a few
problems.
1) swapon shouts: /dev/ra4b: device not configured
Is there another place to tell unix about swap devices excpet in
/etc/fstab? Do unix find by itself the size of swap area (which is
not 33440 like most of disks are configured) ?
2) Error messages about ra4? looks like "ra0e: hard error sn0 OFFLINE"
^^
It is true that ra4 is the 0th disk in this controller but it should
be ra4, and the "e" always appears even if we try i/o on ra4a.
3) Sometimes even when booting successfully (successfull autocnf too)
we cannot access the disk (ra0e: hard error sn0 OFFLINE).
4) We tried to verify partitions sizes (via dd if=/dev/ra4a
of=/dev/null bs=blocksize) and all of them were o.k. except d which
lacks two sectors, the same for all disk (c-part).
Thanks in advance for any hint.
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