On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> I spent about 2 to 3 hours last night futzing with sysinstall and
> getting the amr.ko file onto the 4.0 install disk (using the
> 4.0-19991114 SNAP) I tried adding the amr disks to devices.c in
> sysinstall but had no luck.

...

replying to my own message, I seem to have compiled the install
stuff from Oct25th or so, Bill F told me about libdisk needing
an update to install on new media, however I just assumed it
wasn't done, but it was! :)  (I was compiling sysinstall with
an outdated libdisk)

However, sysinstall's devices.c file still lacks entries for it,
right now I can't test but will be able to tonight, any ideas
on whether it'll just work? (has anyone tested installs on the AMI
mega-raid?)  Or perhaps we need this patch in sysinstall?

thanks,
-Alfred

> 
> After booting the install disks and loading the amr kld (the probe
> messages showed that it was detected) I escaped to the prompt
> (alt+f4).  I saw that the amrd0 /dev/ entries had been created,
> but attempts to access them gave "unit 0 not available" (as far as
> i remeber)
> 
> What exactly needs to be done to get 4.0 installed with a amr disk
> as root?
> 
> this is what I tried:
> 
> Index: devices.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/sysinstall/devices.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.106
> diff -u -r1.106 devices.c
> --- devices.c 1999/11/09 19:10:15     1.106
> +++ devices.c 1999/11/15 14:07:33
> @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_TAPE,      "rwt%d",        "Wangtek tape drive",   10, 0, 1, 4, 
>'c'                        },
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "da%d",         "SCSI disk device",     4, 65538, 8, 
>16, 'b'                    },
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "rda%d",        "SCSI disk device",     13, 65538, 8, 
>16, 'c'                   },
> +    { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "amrd%d",       "AMI-MEGARAID disk",    35, 65538, 8, 
>16, 'b'                   },
> +    { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "ramrd%d",      "AMI-MEGARAID disk",    133, 65538, 8, 
>16, 'c'                  },
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "wd%d",         "IDE/ESDI/MFM/ST506 disk device",      
> 0, 65538, 8, 16, 'b'    },
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "rwd%d",        "IDE/ESDI/MFM/ST506 disk device",      
> 3, 65538, 8, 16, 'c'    },
>      { DEVICE_TYPE_DISK,      "ad%d",         "ATA/IDE disk device",  30, 65538, 8, 
>16, 'b'   },
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  We're really depending on getting these things going RSN.
> 



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