At 10:22 AM -0500 2/13/01, Josh Kuperman wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:23:33PM -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
> > Josh Kuperman wrote:
> > > Years ago I bought a bunch (about 10) of 44M Syquest Cartridges and an
> > > old SCSI1 type Syquest Drive. It comes in handy and I'd like to use it
> > > with NetBSD. I can't figure out how to mount the carts. At the moment
> > > most of them are in Mac OS Format, though I have always need an
> > > extension to read them. The drive itself is detected without a
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > dmesg gives:
> > > sd1 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <SyQuest, SQ555, G2D> SCSI1 
>0/direct removable
> > > sd1: drive offline
> >
> > we don't really support removable media at the moment.  it should work if
> > you mount the disk under MacOS and then boot into NetBSD, tho.
> >
> > -colin
>
>
>This makes no sense to me. How would the system mount it after I

You need to partition the cartridges under MacOS.  You don't need the 
special syquest drivers though since NetBSD wouldn't use them anyway. 
Once in NetBSD you need to do a newfs /dev/rsd1a (or whatever the 
main partition is).  Then do a "mount [-t ffs] /dev/sd1a /syquest" 
and you should be ready to go.  "disklabel sd1" should show you how 
the cartridge is set up and what partitions exist under NetBSD.

>booted into NetBSD. I tried creating a directory '/syquest' for a
>mount point and then 'mount -t hfs /dev/sd1a /syquest' and some
>varieties.  Roberta is my machine.  Give me a guess as to how to refer
>to the device and what fs type to choose. It's not a cd, and I don't
>seem to have an hfs type.
>
>
>roberta# mount -t cd9660 /dev/sd1a /syquest
>mount_cd9660: /dev/sd1a on /syquest: Input/output error
>roberta# mount -t hfs /dev/sd1a /syquest
>mount: mount_hfs not found for /syquest


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