<davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/05/1996 15:38:10
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Alan Palmer wrote:
> Well I'd heard of that fix before from a few people directly so I tried it,
> no go, I still get the
> cannot mode sense (4)
> using ficticious geometry
> message, any other ideas?
Watch as it boots and check the "real" SCSI ID associated with the sd#
and make sure it's a drive that's giving the message. After that, if it
*is* a drive, make sure the drive is working okay under MacOS. That
means the drive isn't SCSI compatible. What's the mechanism associated
with that drive? Do you have any unusual SCSI devices connected with
lower SCSI ID#'s than the drive in question, such as a CD-ROM drive or
SCSI-Ethernet Box? If you do have an unusual devices, do one of two
things.
1. One possibility is to simply get a kernel with the scsifix patch
applied, if you don't already.
2. Otherwise, make sure all "unusual devices" have higher SCSI ID#'s
than all NetBSD drives and use the installer's mini-shell to do an fstab
-force to recreate the fstab file. Then try again.
I don't know if that will help, as I've lost the original post to know
exactly what the problem is.
Later,
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