Subject: Re: Disk corruption w/1.4.2 on Sparc
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2000 03:33:47
If its repeatable, definitely submit a PR - if you can make
a copy of the CD available, even better :)
David/absolute
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:
> I have a Sparc/IPX running 1.4.2-Alpha. Last nite I attempted to mount a
> CD-ROM that was created in Apple Mac format. It should be an ISO-9660
> with Apple Extensions, but I'm not certain as it was Mastered and burned
> under MacOS. It works fine there, and it is Mac bootable.
>
> When I attempted to mount it on the IPX I got a screen full of errors
> followed by a re-boot of the system. However the system wouldn't come
> up. Booting from a valid Sparc bootable NetBSD CD-ROM I was able to poke
> around and it appeared that both the kernel and boot blocks had been
> clobbered on the boot disk. Nothing else appeared to be lost or
> corrupted and reinstalling the kernel and boot blocks got the system back
> up.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or is this just a cockpit problem on my part
> (aside from the fact that I was attempting to access a MacOS CD). I've
> never had problems like this with MacOS CDs on NetBSD/mac68k. I can
> attempt to reproduce this and submit a PR, or I can provide a copy of the
> CD I used to someone more familiar with the Sparc port.
>
> Thanks,
> -bob
>