herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) (11/16/90)
First off, thanks to all the responses to my original post regarding
my swap disk. I turns out that I had three problems each of which,
when discovered, was preventing the swap disk from being mounted.
Problem 1: Bad label
This one was easily fixed by using the "disk" utility to
change the label.
Problem 2: Bad superblock being discovered by "fsck".
Again, I used the "disk" utility. The initialize option took
care of this.
Problem 3: With PM1.44 floppy on the SCSI bus the the swap disk seemed
to disappear.
Well actually, this is not quite true. What really happened is that,
with the floppy on the bus, the swap disk was being assigned a
device Id number other than 0. In fact, the PM1.44 is showing up
on /dev/rsd0a, and the swap disk is showing up on /dev/rsd4a ( dis-
covered by running scsimodes many times ). So to solve the problem
I just modified the "fstab" file to use /dev/rsd4a for the Quantum
drive, and everything seems to be working fine.
Thanks again to everyone for the help.
- Max
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