Subject: Re: can't write to filesystem
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthew Pritzker <plague@itek.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/07/1996 16:11:25
>> SCSI#0 Quantum HD (my MacOS drive)
>
>That's sd0
>
>> SCSI#1
>> SCSI#2
>> SCSI#3 NEC CD-ROM
>
>That's cd0
>
>> SCSI#4 NEC CD-ROM
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>That's cd1
>
>> SCSI#5 Zip Drive
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>That's sd1
>
>> SCSI#6 Quantum HD (my NetBSD drive)
>
>That's sd2
>
>This should be displayed during boot--something like:
>ncrscsi0 at obio0
>scsibus0 at ncrscsi0
>sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1080S, 1Q09> SCSI2
>0/direct fixed
>sd0: 1042MB, 3835 cyl, 4 head, 139 sec, 512 bytes/sec
>sd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1080S, 1Q09> SCSI2
>0/direct fixed
>sd1: 1042MB, 3835 cyl, 4 head, 139 sec, 512 bytes/sec
>
>(from my machine--just two hard drives)
>
>> That's it. Anyway what's the difference between sd4a and rsd4a?
>
>One's the raw device... Don't worry about it--fsck should use the right
>one. The problem is that you don't have an sd4. The installer doesn't
>distinguish between different device types--it assumes that they're all
>hard disks and it's what created the /etc/fstab for you. You'll need to
>go in and change it by hand, I'm afraid--or 'build devices' with the two
>CD-ROM drives powered down (and therefore not visible).
>
First, thanks to everyone who responded. Using the cpin/cpout functions in
the installer I modified fstab to look for sd2 instead of sd4 and
everything came right up.
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Matthew Pritzker plague@itek.net
Physicist for Hire http://www.itek.net/~plague