cruller@unicom.net wrote:
> Greg Dunn wrote:
> > 
> > Did you always have root and swap on separate SCSI IDs?  I seem to
> > remember from the docs that root & swap want to be on the same drive,
> > even though technically what you're doing should work.
> 
> No. But moving the swap to its own 40meg drive works quite well for me
> right now.  I thought that the 1.3 stuff was capable of seperate root,
> swap drives,  Tho I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

It is.  You can put swap whereever you want (you can even swap to a file).
 
> > 
> > Other than that, I don't see any big problems; I do know that NetBSD
> > is very fussy about SCSI cable length...
> 
> The Q800 has an extra scsi plug on the internal cable, 1 for cd, 1for
> 1/2 height rack & 2 for full height rack.  I've got the usr drive on the
> last scsi plug.  I'll try the second to last plug, maybe that will help.
> :-)  Thanks!

Make sure that only 1 drive on your internal cable is terminated!

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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