Subject: Re: Quadra 630 Question
To: Mamoru Yamanishi <yama@biotech.okayama-u.ac.jp>
From: SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/01/1997 23:02:51
>
> Your IIci has internal hard disk drive, doesn't it? If not, please
> ignore followings. Also please ignore when I give you bad advices.
It is an external 1.3 GB SCSI Quantum Fireball hard drive. I used
the drive with a IIci, booting from the drive as SCSI 5. I'm keeping the
same SCSI ID (my drive is 5, my CD-ROM is 6) and not using the internal
IDE at all.
Also, it is all in one partition... sd1a I think. I'm THINKING
that the only problem I should have is with the kernel.... so I will try
the kernel someone suggested (GENERIC36 I think?) and see how it goes ;-)
- Ryan
>
> If your IIci has internal drive, it must be SCSI-id = 0. Therefore
> this dirve might be recognized as sd0. So your external hard disk
> dirve migyt be sd1.
>
> On Quadra630, the internal hard disk dirve is not SCSI but IDE type.
> Therefore NetBSD kernel skips it. So your external hard disk now
> become to recognized as sd0, I think.
>
> I hear you can boot NetBSD on external drive. Concerning this,
> your /etc/fstab is badly written so as to work on not sd0 but sd1.
>
> Please check followings:
>
> with "Mini Shell" on "installer utility",
> type following command
>
> > cat /etc/fstab
>
> you may see such as
> /dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1
> ... and so on
>
> if you see "sd1a" instead of "sd0a", /etc/fstab is bad.
>
> Try to re-write it
>
> > fstab force
> > cat /etc/fstab
>
> Now exit from Mini Shell and quit.
>
> -------------------
> Mamoru Yamanishi <yama@biotech.okayama-u.ac.jp>
> +81-86-251-8196(voice) & +81-86-253-7399(GIII type FAX)
> Biotech. Dept., Okayama Univ.
>
>
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