I have an opportunity to buy a used Seagate Hawk 1.2 gigabyte drive for =
my mac for $100.  Did you have to purchase any special driver software =
to use it for MacOS?  Have your problems running netbsd 1.3 been =
resolved using the seagate drive?


have a UNIX on me

jimk@wvpa.com and jpkidd@iupui.edu

-----Original Message-----
From:	Stephen Brown [SMTP:sbrown@best.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 11, 1998 06:19
To:	iteration@worldnet.att.net
Cc:	port-mac68k@NetBSD.org; sbrown@best.com
Subject:	Re: Question - NetBSD 1.3 mac68k


Hi,

Could you let me know what versions of installer and mkfs you were =
using??
Hopefully the latest versions were used.  I assume that the Seagate Hawk
is a 1GB or 2GB drive judging from the partition sizes you used.  Many
people have reported problems with 2GB drives, but only in the install=20
itself and not in the mountfs.  Some of the problems do tend to depend
on the partition sizes and order.  What order were the partitions =
created in??
How many other partitions existed on the drive??  Can you send me the =
lines
that you omitted below(i.e. the ones starting with sd0a..., etc.)?? -
basically the lines equivalent to the disklabel command.  Those will =
really
help me debug a little better.

Thanks,
Steve Brown
sbrown@best.com

> Hi, I had an error when launching the mac68k Installer.  I downloaded =
the=20
> entire contents of the netbsd mac68k directory, version 1.3.  I =
formatted=20
> three partitions of a Seagate Hawk drive as follows:
>
> Root, approx 100MB
> Usr, approx 500MB
> swap, approx 60MB
>
> and converted them with mkfs to the correct types.  When I run the=20
> installer, I get something like this, after selecting the Seagate as =
my=20
> drive:
>
> sd0a...etc etc
> ...
> ...
> and then:
>
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> failed mountfs(), error 22.
> Error mounting root.
> mount root. : undefined error: 0
>
> then my computer crashes (gives me an option to restart)
>
> My computer is one that is supported, a Performa 550 with 21MB RAM,=20
> System 7.6.  Thanks for any help you could provide.
>
>
>
> -Bobby Cox
> iteration@worldnet.att.net
> __________________________________________
>
> The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
> regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
>   Nietzche
>
> Windows is not the answer.  It's the question.  The answer is no.
>
> Windows 95: n.
> 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an
> 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
> written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
>     =20
>
>