ps *insists* on accessing floppy on Microport SysV/AT 2.4

Randy Jarrett WA4MEI rsj at wa4mei.UUCP
Tue May 2 23:51:38 AEST 1989


In article <291 at tree.UUCP> stever at tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:
++>safe to say tht the two devices are NOT linked?  (It appears that swap is
++>linked instead to /dev/dsk/0s25...yes?)  Is it "safe" to just
++>"ln /dev/swap /dev/dsk/fd" ??  I like to have a little bit of assurance
++>that I'm not going to regret my actions before I do unfamiliar things as
++>root; I *don't* have a tape backup unit (speaking of which, can anyone
++>recommend an adequate unit which they *know* works under 2.4?).
++>
++>brw-r--r--   1 root     sys        1,198 Mar 23  1986 /dev/swap
++>brw-r--r--   5 root     sys        1, 70 Mar 28 17:21 /dev/dsk/fd
++>brw-r--r--   1 root     sys        1,198 Mar 23  1986 /dev/dsk/0s25
++>----------
++>Steve Rudek  {ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac OR ames!pacbell!sactoh0} !tree!stever


If you look in your manual section for special files (s7) at fl7 you
will see that 0s25 is your floppy drive with a 1 cylinder offset 
that is used for boot and installit floppies. According to my
system your swap device should be 0,1 with  brw-rw-rw- permissions.

About the tape drive, There are several of us in the Atlanta area
that are running 2.4 and using the Archive tape drives and controllers.
You have to be carefull in the linkkit as there is a mistake in the
master file that has the ar driver calling the ev module. The line with
ar should have ar under the prefix column.  



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