>From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Subject: cache botch in bootstrap
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 94 18:14:35 +1100
The cache in the bootstrap loader didn't allow for the device changing.
This caused surprisingly little trouble - the cache is only for a single
track (or part of a track), and the first access to a new device is
always for an early sector, so there is no problem unless the last access
to the old device was for an early sector. I saw the problem on a system
with BSD on wd1 and no label on wd0. Everything worked if the the device
name wd(1,a) was specified before the default of wd(0,a) was tried, but
when the default was tried, it failed on the first sector because there
was no label, and then the first sector on wd0 was always used instead
of the first sector on wd1, so there was apparently no label on wd1
either.
Bruce
pair of crunched binaries that are not built by this, but other than
that it is back to an automated procedure. So many changes it is
hard to describe.
Subject: Bugfix for SB16 with DSP version 4 and above
No description sent, but it appears to fix a major number problem
with certain models of the SB16.
Small hack, if heads > 16, output a warning and then set the head
count to 16. This stops the infinite loop on this error and allows
people to later fix the DOS parameter table later with fdisk.
>From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 09:40:35 +0100 (MET)
The last version expected elvis* files in /var/tmp, while elvis puts
elv* files there.
back editor!
Add nvi recovery precedure from man page.
Fix ntpdate echo lines so that it looks pretty (ntpdate spits out 1 line
of output that makes the system boot up look real ugly if you do it
echo -n, so I chaged it to echo, and then added a
echo -n 'starting more network daemons:' so any addition daemon starts
look normal.
Message-Id: <9402201119.AA06430@login.dkuug.dk>
Subject: bug in fdformat.c
There is a bug in fdformat.c: the number of heads are hardcoded in two places.
This is quite inconsequencial at present, but a bug nontheless.
I already update this manpage from wilko, moreover,
I fix some his bugs and add some new material.
Jordan, pleeease, do following commands *before* each your commit:
cvs update <file>
cvs rlog <file>
and after update (before commit)
cvs diff -c <file>
It can saves my life time at least...
run Exabyte 8505 on 1742's. This may not be the final solution, but it
makes it work. It may be better to change the DELAY(10) to DELAY(30)
inside the loop instead of increasing the loop count from 100 to 300.
Subject: Bug Fix for ft.c - please commit
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 10:22:54 CST
This fixes a bug where the system can crash if the tape is used
after the floppy has been used.
idea considering the old version (but I haven't time for attic surgery - this
is just a caution). This is part of (and the major reason for) the new ld
changes.
