Subject: Re: disklabel working?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/01/1997 13:02:42
The answer is no.

:-)

> I'm adding an old, small SCSI HD to my SE/30, so that I can get some
> experience installing disks. I want to do the complete job from within
> NetBSD, but I'm having some problems.

We (mac68k) don't support writing disklabels right now. It's one of the
things I'd like to work on, but I'm trying to get LocalTalk first. Likewise
others are trying to get color X, LC040's, and working SCSI drivers (no more
SBC vs ncrscsi) going. Though not ideal, the current setup works ok.

The thing I really want to do is make it so that you can write any sort of
disklabel on a disk. And read it. So mac68k could read a MacOS disk,
a DOS-partitioned disk (I forgot the proper name), an AmigaOS disk, a
SunOS disk, a NetBSD/sun disk, etc. To do it right, we need to be able
to specify what kind of disklabel we want to deal with, and have all
the label readers around.

But I'm not there yet. :-(

Take care,

Bill