Subject: Re: Problems installing NetBSD/atari 1.1-BETA on Falcon
To: None <leo@ahwau.ahold.nl>
From: Helmar Goettsch <goettsch@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
List: port-atari
Date: 11/18/1995 19:53:43
(Leo, please forward this to Waldi)
Hi, Leo and Waldi
About my reported bug, that the BOOT-kernel doesn't recognize my disks
(Invalid TOS partition table) Leo sent me an analyse program 'aptck'.
I have a Falcon 030 with TOS 4.04 vom 08.03.1993.
> The disklabel recognition code has been significantly changed (improved)
> by Waldi to allow for NetBSD labels. We decided on strong checking in
> the AHDI-label code. The idea was that at (nearly) any cost, we should
> avoid messing up existing partitions. It turns out that not all partition
> programs follow the rules exactly and there is - of course - the possibility
> of bugs and/or thinko's on the NetBSD side. To analyze the AHDI-partitioning,
> Waldi has written a small program to check things. I'll send this to
> you by private e-mail. If people on the list are interested, I'm willing
> to put it on the list too. In time it will be available from the ftp
> server.
> 

Below you see the output of your 'aptck'-programm
for my two SCSI disks CDC (sd1) and QUANTUM (sd2)
(The QUANTUM will be used for NetBSD)

I can't understand this output, but can only report the partition-list
I see and have created with "HDDRIVER V.2.71 by Uwe Seimet 1993 :
You see it as an comparision to the aptck-output on the right side.


device     : s10 (SCSI target 1 lun 0) [CDC     94181-15        ]

---------  aptck-Output ----------

sector size: 512 bytes
medium size: 1193100 sectors

root sector data:
  medium size: 1193100                  ----  HDDRIVER-partition table
  start of bad sector list : 1
  length of bad sector list: 1             start    end   (in sectors)
  entry 0: BGM         2    195464      0       2   195462
  entry 1: BGM    195466     97795      1  195463   293254
  entry 2: BGM    293261     97795      2  293255   391046
  entry 3: XGM    391056    802044      3  391047   566989
auxilary root at sector 391056:         4  566990   802283
  entry 0: BGM         1    175945      5  802284   1193082
  entry 1: XGM    175946    235298
                                        Capacity:   1193100
auxilary root at sector 567002:         Used:       1193083
  entry 0: BGM         1    235296      Free:       17
  entry 1: XGM    411243    390802
Partition extends beyond end of extended partition!

NetBSD says: Invalid AHDI partition table.



device     : s20 (SCSI target 2 lun 0) [QUANTUM LPS270S         ]

---------  aptck-Output ----------

sector size: 512 bytes
medium size: 528808 sectors

root sector data:
  medium size: 528808                   ----  HDDRIVER-partition table
  start of bad sector list : 1
  length of bad sector list: 1             start   end   (in sectors)
  entry 0: NBR         2     40962      0       2   40961
  entry 1: NBS     40964     65538      1   40962  166497
  entry 2: BGM    106502     65538      2  106498  172033
  entry 3: XGM    172040    356768      3  172034  176129
                                        4  176130  180225
auxilary root at sector 172040:         5  180226  362497
  entry 0: GEM         1      4097      6  362498  528794
  entry 1: XGM      4098      4099
                                        Capacity:  528808
auxilary root at sector 176138:         Used:      528795
  entry 0: NBU         1      4097      Free:          13
  entry 1: XGM      8196    182275

auxilary root at sector 180236:
  entry 0: NBU         1    182273
  entry 1: XGM    190470    166299
Partition extends beyond end of extended partition!

NetBSD says: Invalid AHDI partition table.


Hope you can find somthing .

Thank you , Helmar