Paul,

    I think you are bumping into the unfortunate fact that the external bus
(53c94) is scanned before the mesh. There are ways to go into the config file
and force the order of device detection.

                    kevin

paul beard wrote:

> On Sunday 23 December 2001 11:06 am, Kevin Diggs opined:
> >     What does you Syquest do? I have an old Iomega 90M bernoulli (also
> > trusty and FAR more reliable than zips and jaz) that also does not work
> > under MacOS but seems to work fine under NetBSD.
>
> well, here's what it does. It's not the drive but the kernel, I see now: what
> happens is that if the drive is spun at boot time, it becomes device sd0, so
> my root partition is mounted as sd1 and the usual sd1 (/opt) becomes sd2. If
> I boot with it physically disconnected (!!), not just unmounted, I get the
> usual suspects at sd0 and sd1 and I can then connect and mount the Syquest as
> sd2.
>
> Disklabel seems to fail and newfs whines a bit but all seems well: I have a
> mountable volume, though I have to do any partitioning/labelling in MacOS.
>
> And you can get support for Syquest media in MacOS from Syquest: they had
> drivers there that work just fine.
> --
> Paul Beard
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