Subject: Re: using a ZIP cart for /usr
To: None <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de, port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dan Murrell Jr. <danimal@netbsd.warped.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/19/1996 16:43:36
In Ignatios Souvatzis$s on <199611191542.QAA09296@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>=
$s,
Re: using a ZIP cart for /usr$s wrote the following:

> Up to, and including, NetBSD-1.2, we didn't understand the scsi "mode
> page" which removable devices use, which is different from the one
> fixed devices use. So a fictive geometry is used by NetBSD. This is no=

> problem for NetBSD itself... however...
>=20
> The RDB partition table is in units of cylinders (instead of blocks),
> so you just dont find the partitions.
>=20
> The workaround is to use HDTOOLBOX or a similar tool and first set the=

> geometry to the one NetBSD reports when booting, then assign partition=
s.

Hi,
  Well, I got the drive geometry from NetBSD, and entered it in
HDToolBox.  First of all, it wouldn't let me use the first 2 blocks,
presumably for the RDB.  I got all the data entered in, rebooted
and booted NetBSD, and it still won't allow me to use the
Zip cart as /usr.    Any more suggestions?
--=20
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