Subject: Re: disklabel working?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Christopher R. Bowman <crb@glue.umd.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/01/1997 21:36:16
>The answer is no.
>
>:-)
>
>> I'm adding an old, small SCSI HD to my SE/30, so that I can get some
>> experience installing disks. I want to do the complete job from within
>> NetBSD, but I'm having some problems.
>
>We (mac68k) don't support writing disklabels right now. It's one of the
>things I'd like to work on, but I'm trying to get LocalTalk first. Likewise
>others are trying to get color X, LC040's, and working SCSI drivers (no more
>SBC vs ncrscsi) going. Though not ideal, the current setup works ok.
>
>The thing I really want to do is make it so that you can write any sort of
>disklabel on a disk. And read it. So mac68k could read a MacOS disk,
>a DOS-partitioned disk (I forgot the proper name), an AmigaOS disk, a
>SunOS disk, a NetBSD/sun disk, etc. To do it right, we need to be able
>to specify what kind of disklabel we want to deal with, and have all
>the label readers around.

I find this an interesting problem, is there anyone in the know who would
like to explain why we don't allow disklabeling, and what would be required
to implement it?  Any one want to discuss this.

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