On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Bob Nestor wrote:

> >	It rebooted fine, but now my SCSI disks won't mount. It SAYS that
> >they are mounting at startup, but their icon does not appear. I open my
> >SCSI probe and they show up, but when I try to mount them it says not
> >enough memory. And, I try to mount them using my Anubis utility and the
> >program crashes with a type 2 error. Is there any way I can get my disks
> >to mount?? And, what caused this?? I'm using the current-970829 snapshot,
> >with the GENERIC-38 kernel on my Q630. Besides the mounting problems I'm
> >having now, it worked just fine...
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> I've seen a problem very similar to this on my system long before I 
> starting playing with NetBSD.  The MacOS System was 7.1 and the solution 
> was to run Apple's Disk First Aid and repair the disk.  Strangely Disk 
> First Aid would never report finding any errors, but the disk was always 
> fully functional afterwards.  When I upgraded the MacOS System to 7.5 and 
> installed the SCSI disk driver that came with System, the problem went 
> away. So you might want to give Disk First Aid a try or try upgading the 
> MacOS driver.
> 
> BTW, I doubt that NetBSD did anything to destroy your MacOS partitions 
> unless you used one of the very early versions of Mkfs (pre 1.2 I think) 
> and Installer (1.0?) on a disk that was over 1Gig in size. They did had a 
> bug that would over-write MacOS partitions.  Make sure you have used one 
> of the later versions - Mkfs 1.45 and Installer 1.1e.
> 
> -bob
> 

	I've tried using Disk First Aid on it, but it only recognizes my
internal drive (the standard Q630 250MB IDE) since it is not mounted. I'll
try a few things and see what works. It IS a 1.3 GB disk, but I used the
1.1 installer and the latest Mkfs utility I could find... thanks! ;-)

	Ryan

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