Subject: Re: Big SCSI-Drives?
To: semios doz <semios@qnis.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/09/1998 13:16:06
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, semios doz wrote:

> If you're getting a SCSIRead(), #5 error then the netbsd/mac68k 
> <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq-4.html#ss4.12> faq explains 
> why.  Basically, installer has a bug that will only allow it to install 
> to the first gig of any hard disk.  This was the problem I had installing 
> it onto my system.  I repartitioned the disk, so that the NetBSD 
> partitions lie within the first gig, and now it works fine.

We should make it a little clearer. The SCSIRead #5 error is not the
problem. It always seems to do that.

The big-drive problem is seperate, though I thought it'd been fixed. I
know it was at one time.... The "big sets fail but small ones work" makes
it sound more like a memory leak or some such. ??

Take care,

Bill