Subject: Re: Jaz/Zip Drives On DUO/MiniDock
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Dave Thurstan <dave@myrddyn.demon.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/14/1997 22:59:17
>> Getting the JAZ drive to work is one of the steps I'm taking to help me
>> plunge into MacBSD development (in a tentative kinda way, if you see what
>> I mean. %)
>
>Probably a good place to start. :-)

In at the deep end and can't swim, eh. Never mind, me all over ;)
[see next snip]


>That's the problem. All the hard disks show up during autoconfig at boot (we
>don't yet support post-boot configuration).
>
[snip]
>It would take a bit of work to get NetBSD to be happy w/ multiple SCSI
>ports (well, to get port-mac68k happy; M.I. NetBSD is quite happy now).
>The mac68k drivers kinda assume there's only one chip AFAIK. To support
>multiple chips, two things need to be done. 1) the mac68k side of the
>5380 driver needs to deal with multiple chips, and 2) someone needs
>to write an attach routine for the doc's chip.

Maybe I'll have a go - I've got a few ideas. (I've got _all_ the source 8^)
[And no, I've not got the Smiley-Book !:)]

>
>That "normal" error means you either don't have your timezone set correctly in
>the Map Control panel, or you don't have the GMT offset set right in the
>booter.

Ahhhhh! Knew I'd read it somewhere ! Cheers :))


>Bill

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,



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