Subject: Re: hfsutils
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dan McMahill <mcmahill@sandia.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/01/1997 18:16:42
Has anyone been able to use xhfs lately? I used to use it, but
ever since I upgraded to NetBSD-1.2 (and this week 1.2.1), I
get a kernel panic every time I try to use xhfs. This happens
with hfsutils-2.0 and whatever the prev. version was. Any ideas
why and how to make it not do that? Actually, I've noticed that
if I try to do something illegal to the file system I get a kernel
panic. For example, I just added a 20 Mb (yes, 20) external drive
for backing up some critical files. When I was setting it up, I
incorrectly tried
newfs /dev/sd2c
and that caused a kernel panic every time until I realized I wanted
newfs /dev/sd2g
Do I just have a problem in my setup or are others experiencing this too?
I have a mac IIci and I am using the binary distribution with the generic
kernel that came with it. When I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2 and then 1.2.1 I
did not touch anything in /etc. Could this be a problem?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Dan
>
>hmount /dev/sd1c
>
>
>That should mount it, assuming that you only have 1 partition on that
>drive. If you have more, do a disklabel on the drive and figure out
>which partition letter it is (c accesses the whole disk). Keep in mind that
>the hfsutils don't actually mount the filesystem in the BSD filesystem,
>so there is no need to specify a mount point or anything like that. I
>would recommend using either the shell (hfsh?) or the X browser (xhfs) if
>you are going to access your Mac partitions. It's much easier that way.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Later.
>
>--
>Colin Wood ender@is.rice.edu
>Consultant Rice University
>Information Technology Services Houston, TX