Subject: Re: another try on the IDE driver
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/14/1998 21:01:07
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> > Hey, cool!  Didn't know such a thing existed... :-)
> 
> Yeah.  Built it a few months back.  I mentioned it on here, but it was
> buried in the discussions of ideas for native installers (which will no
> doubt resurface shortly).

> surprisingly, it appeared towork w/o problems, at least for reading from
> the partition table.  I never tried writing....  YMMV.  :-)

One semi-obvious point worth mentioning: since NetBSD doesn't have a
/dev/sda or /dev/sd0 or whatever (number=letter, letter=number, etc.), you
have to specify /dev/sd0c or /dev/sd1c or whatever... the whole drive
partition....  Kind of logical, but I thought I should mention it before
someone tried to add a partition table in the middle of an HFS partition.
Not sure what it would do....  :-)


Later,
David

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