Re: Spectrum issues revisited

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>]

> >  - booting: both generic and my own kernel detect sd2 as having 9 heads
> >    and 84 sectors, but I get a warning:
> >    warning: found rdb->secpercyl(756) != rdb->nsectors(54) * rdb->nheads(9)
> >    Something screwy with the disk layout, or an off-by-one error somewhere?
> 
> 54? with a five in front of the four?

 Sorry, typo. It must read "85".

> Either you or your harddisk partitioning tool wrote nonsense into the rigid
> disk lock structure. 
 
 HDFoolbox ...

> >  - unknown dos type 0x53575000. That's my Linux swap 'SWP\0' partition.
> 
> Suggestion: I've heard the rumour that Linux doesn't really look at the
> partition type, is this true? In this case you might want to change it to
> the 'NBS\1' which NetBSD uses as a swap partition, to share it.

 I may check outy whether it works. But in this particular case, I want
 to confine NetBSD/Linux to their particular drives.

> >  Problem: ados volumes can be mounted read-only. Is there any, any, any
> >  way around this, however obscure?
> 
> "However obscure"? Yes. Write the adosfs writing code.
 
 <g>

> If you binpatch on the AmigaOS side (The Adosfs binary of the binpatch
> program should be on the Regensburg NetBSD/Amiga ftp archive) you dont
> have the problem.

 Sorry, I wasn't aware that an AmigaOS binary of binpatch exists!
 This helps greatly!