On Aug 11,  6:50pm, Kim G. S. yhus wrote:
> Subject: Re: Unsuccessful attempt on 1.2 beta scratch-installation
>
> You cant do development on the pitifully small IDE disks which
> are in common use.

That depends what you're developing. I develop X (several copies of the build
tree plus a CVS repository) on IDE-only.

> And what about me: I work professionally as a unix system administrator,
> and know perfectly well how to develop unix programs, yet with NetBSD
> on the RiscPC, I cant get anything done, and i have mounted on
> a partitioned IDE drive. The reason? I dont have a HD on my
> cumana scsi card. I have an optical PD instead. This makes the
> boot sequence crash. Programming like that sucks.

Thats a new one to me unless you have the drive unloaded at the time (for some
reason it refuses to probe unloaded IIRC) or have termination configured on the
card. Please could you let me have some more details (does it hang or panic?,
etc). I think the Jury is out on whether it is the hardware, software or just
the combination of the two which sucks :-)

> However, I could rewrite it myself if I could boot and compile, which
> I cant. The chicken and egg problem.

I can see how that could be a little bit irritating...

Cheers

Rob

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