Subject: Re: ADFS mounting
To: Phillip Marsden <phillip.marsden@btinternet.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/16/2002 23:20:09
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 22:57, Phillip Marsden wrote:
> I am now steadily working through adding packages to my new
> installation. At the moment, when I find a package on my cdrom is not
> the correct version, I am downloading the relevant version from the
> website. This is easier (at the moment) to perform from within RISC OS.
> I can transfer the file by using mountufs from within RISC OS. Is it
> possible to mount the ADFS drive from within NetBSD?

Yep handy utility.

> The manual for mount_filecore indicates that it is possible, but what is
> the drive device which must be used? The drive that I am using is the
> first drive on the motherboard controller. /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0e are
> used for the NetBSD parts of the drive.

I think it's wd0c or wd0d.  Note that our RISC-OS 4 version of ADFS
support isn't fantastic, somewhere I've got some code that handles doing
reading properly, however I've just not had the time *sigh*

Cheers,
Chris