Subject: Re: NetBSD hp300 ver 1.0
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 11/08/1996 09:20:34
>  > Alright.  I have finally gotten the disklabel to work correctly.  My best
>  > advice to anyone would be to go into SAM under HP-UX and "Add a Drive".  It
>  > will give you an option to initialize the media.  After that, the disklabel
>  > process went fine.  
> 
> Hmm ... mediainit... I'll have to take a look at possibly "simulating"
> that ...
> 
>  > The problem that I am now having is that my arps are not being answered.  I
>  > solved this problem by using the install technique from 1.0.  Since I have
>  > a number 7958B drives, I just used the label file that was provided.

Is "mediainit" required for SCSI devices?

I thought all it did was format HPIB devices... SCSI devices don't need
to be reformatted.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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