Subject: Re: Zip Disks
To: Mike Sienicki <mike@cpdist.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/06/1999 12:56:14
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:39:29PM -0500, Mike Sienicki wrote:
> Dear Port i386,
> 
> (1). How can I turn a 100MB Zip disk (MS-DOS format) into a FFS formatted disk
> under NetBSD V1.4.1 running on the i386 port?

'newfs /dev/sd0d' should do it.

> 
> (2). I am unable to mount a Zip disk with an FFS format (made using the
> Atari NetBSD V1.4.1 port) on my PC running NetBSD V1.4.1 for some reason. I
> am however
> able to mount an MS-DOS Zip disk on either computer after using mbrlabel.

The ffs structure depends on the CPU endian type. You need to compile a
kernel with 'options        FFS_EI' in your config file to be able
to mount a big-endiam FFS on your PC.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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