Subject: Re: A new user's comments, part 2
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/02/1995 11:50:48
> -- One of my disks is an old Maxtor LXT-213S that apparently doesn't
> understand the LUN concept. The -current kernel thinks it's eight drives,
> one at each LUN. Fortunately, this didn't get in my way too badly -- it
> did push one of my other drives up to `sd10', after which I was not able
> to mount it (`mount', oddly, complained that the directory I was trying to
> mount on did not exist, when it clearly did) -- but there was nothing on
> that drive I needed immediately. However this could screw somebody else
> trying to install this kernel... seems like another reason why the
> distributed kernel should have hardwired SunOS SCSI mappings.
>
You want to patch /sys/scsi/scsiconf.c
Add a line to the table something like
{T_DIRECT, T_FIXED,
"MAXTOR ", "LXT-213S ", "", SDEV_NOLUNS},
There is already an entry for
{T_DIRECT, T_FIXED,
"MAXTOR ", "LXT-213S SUN0207", "", SDEV_NOLUNS},
hmm.. wonder why it has " SUN0207" on the end - maybe if you label
your disk "SUN0207" it will work ok?
> -- Another requirement for running many SunOS binaries is to symlink
> `/etc/termcap' and `/usr/lib/termcap' to `/usr/share/misc/termcap' (I
> don't really know that both links are necessary; I just made them both.)
>
Isn't the 2nd one /usr/share/lib/termcap?
> -- The SunOS `tcsh' sorta half-worked, but had big trouble with signals. I
> succeeded in rebuilding it, but to do so I had to bring over the SunOS
> `vfork.h' -- no such file seems to exist in NetBSD. Shouldn't it be
> there?
Just comment out the include for vfork.h and all if fine - I submitted
a patch to the owner for this a little while back.
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