hrmmm well how hard is it to set it up with an external drive? I know for
now I have pulled the cdrom out and put a nice little scsi hd in it's place
to see if this is gonna work before I go out and get an external drive cage.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Nestor [mailto:rnestor@metronet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 7:23 PM
> To: BloodWolf
> Subject: Re: Performa 630CD with IDE Drive
>
>
> BloodWolf <bloodwolf@usa.net> wrote:
>
> >I'm tryin' to use mkfs on the ide drive, but all it detects are scsi
> >devices.. The cdrom is scsi so it detects that but it doesn't
> bother to scan
> >the ide bus! I've installed NetBSD on scsi systems but on this
> mac with an
> >ide drive it's not working... I've even swapped out a LC040 for
> a real 040
> >so now it's faster than ever! Any thoughts?
>
> Mkfs doesn't support IDE. I've been working on the changes, but they're
> not ready yet. For the moment you'll need to use the fdisk utility that
> MkLinux distributes to create your NetBSD compatible partitions and use
> newfs under NetBSD to initialize them.
>
> sorry,
> -bob
>
>
>