Subject: Re: Anyone using a Bernoulli?
To: Allan 'Norm' Crain <allanc@idea-inc.com>
From: Nicholas Riley <nriley@tiac.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/24/1997 18:57:49
On 9/18/97 at 8:33 PM -0500, Allan 'Norm' Crain wrote:

> I just finished setting up a bernoulli drive for NetBSD.. I haven't gotten it
> working quite properly yet though... X doesn't seem to want to work (that
> might not be at all related to the Bernoulli) and I get errors about bad
> request on sd1 or some such when I boot... But it should be fine for holding
> things like the X sources etc. Main problem I had was formatting it for
> NetBSD... Had to get it so it was inserted but not mounted (eventually got it
> to work by booting with the drive off, then turning it on and inserting the
> cartridge. The Mac wasn't expecting it, so it didn't try to mount it and
>I was
> able to format it)

hm. Only problem I've had is error messages like this:

Sep 24 17:25:09 roadrunner afpd[165]: ASIP started on 10.0.0.1:548(1)
(1.4b2+asun2.0a12)
Sep 24 17:27:37 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 0
Sep 24 17:27:37 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 0
Sep 24 17:27:37 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using
fictitious geometry
Sep 24 17:28:04 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 0
Sep 24 17:28:05 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 0
Sep 24 17:28:05 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using
fictitious geometry
Sep 24 17:29:31 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using
fictitious geometry
Sep 24 17:42:15 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 4
Sep 24 17:42:16 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1(ncrscsi0:5:0): error code 4
Sep 24 17:42:16 roadrunner /netbsd: sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using
fictitious geometry

Are these errors bad? Is there anything wrong with 'fictitious geometry'?

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