Subject: Re: NetBSD hp300 ver 1.0
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 11/08/1996 09:20:34
> > Alright. I have finally gotten the disklabel to work correctly. My best
> > advice to anyone would be to go into SAM under HP-UX and "Add a Drive". It
> > will give you an option to initialize the media. After that, the disklabel
> > process went fine.
>
> Hmm ... mediainit... I'll have to take a look at possibly "simulating"
> that ...
>
> > The problem that I am now having is that my arps are not being answered. I
> > solved this problem by using the install technique from 1.0. Since I have
> > a number 7958B drives, I just used the label file that was provided.
Is "mediainit" required for SCSI devices?
I thought all it did was format HPIB devices... SCSI devices don't need
to be reformatted.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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