Subject: Re: another try on the IDE driver
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/15/1998 10:29:18
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:30:03 -0500 (CDT), David A. Gatwood wrote:
> > > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> > > 
> > > > with hfsutils or something, or try to create an A/UX type partition on
> > > > the drive with pdisk (*), format the partition with newfs, and mount it.
> > > > 
> > > > *: ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/wip/pdisk/980218/pdisk_68k.hqx
> > > > This is a MacOS application.  Thanks to Yasuhiro Endoh for the URL.
> > > 
> > > Or, if you're really daring, you could try pdisk under NetBSD.  :-)  Try:
> > > 
> > > ftp://globegate.utm.edu/pub/NetBSD/pdisk/pdisk-netbsd-mac68k
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> The only real changes were basically header changes, and removal of
> something in the main(), I believe, which had to do with some kind of long
> options (the details are a little vague, sorry), that NetBSD doesn't or
> didn't support.

Could we have a package please?

Thanks!

Bill