Thank you. Everything is working fine and I have a new 44M (a little less
really) partition on a syqest drive. I experimented creating a new
file system on one I don't think had anything I care about. Now if I
could only access the MacOS partitions to make sure I'm not destroying
something I'd need.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:07:56AM -0800, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 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

> You need to partition the cartridges under MacOS.  You don't need the 

That's cool! They came partitioned. So maybe I'm set.

Experiment 1:

roberta# mount -t ffs /dev/sd1a /syquest
mount_ffs: /dev/sd1a on /syquest: incorrect super block


About what you'ld expect since its not a bsd ffs yet.

Experiment 2:
roberta# newfs /dev/rsd1a
Warning: 6 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a:     86558 sectors in 1273 cylinders of 2 tracks, 34 sectors
        42.3MB in 80 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.53MB/g, 128 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
    32,  1168,  2208,  3344,  4384,  5520,  6560,  7696,  8736,  9872,
 10912, 12048, 13088, 14224, 15264, 16400, 17440, 18576, 19616, 20752,
 21792, 22928, 23968, 25104, 26144, 27280, 28320, 29456, 30496, 31632,
 32672, 33808, 34848, 35984, 37024, 38160, 39200, 40336, 41376, 42512,
 43552, 44688, 45728, 46864, 47904, 49040, 50080, 51216, 52256, 53392,
 54432, 55568, 56608, 57744, 58784, 59920, 60960, 62096, 63136, 64272,
 65312, 66448, 67488, 68624, 69664, 70800, 71840, 72976, 74016, 75152,
 76192, 77328, 78368, 79504, 80544, 81680, 82720, 83856, 84896, 86032,

> 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.

Experiment 3: (Seeing if it works)

roberta# mount -t ffs /dev/sd1a /syquest
roberta# cd /syquest
roberta# cat >whatever.txt
This is test of writing to
my new file system
roberta# cat whatever.txt
This is test of writing to
my new file system
roberta# df .
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd1a       40701        2    38663     0%    /syquest
roberta# 
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Josh Kuperman                       
josh@saratoga.lib.ny.us