At 2:07 Uhr +0000 12.12.2007, John Klos wrote:
>>>  Interesting... yours is the first report of somebody trying to
>>>install NetBSD/mac68k on such a drive. While there may be
>>>incompatibilities on the SCSI level... how big is your root
>>>partition? I dimly recall some of the old MacOS based tools having
>>>issues with accessing partitions beyond 1 GB. That's why I usually
>>>put the NetBSD partitions first.
>
>What makes the drive special? mac68k has been installed on just
>about every kind of drive I can think of.

The SCSI-to-IDE adapters may or may not map all of the SCSI disk 
command set in a reasonable manner, and they may or may not take into 
account peculiar implementations on ~twenty-year-old machines. Thomas 
is the first to report a NetBSD/mac68k installation on a bridged IDE 
drive, for all I know.

>>  Just for the fun of it I formated the root partition (906 MB) and
>>installed NetBSD 1.5.3 using the GENERIC kernel.  Everything went
>>fine.  I was able to boot into multi-user mode... no problem.  It's
>>not some of the old MacOS based tools that have a problem.

Thanks for testing that!

>   My
>>guess is that something has happened to NetBSD between version
>>1.5.3 and 4.0R5, which is plenty, I'm sure.  Again, thanks for
>>bearing with me on this little dilemma.

I see that you reported similar issues in 
<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2007/05/25/0000.html>. Have 
the patches in netbsd-3 fixed that for you, i.e. is your current 
problem netbsd-4 specific?

>Was your 4.0 install done on a partition which was formatted with
>mkfs under MacOS, or newfs under the NetBSD installer kernel? mkfs
>is woefully out of date.

Mkfs and the MacOS Installer worked for me on a Macintosh IIvx (see PR 37474).

	hauke



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