I had it from another drive that I have.

Chris

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jim Kidd wrote:

> Did SilverLining come with it or did you download it from somewhere?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris [SMTP:smirks@mail.eclipse.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 12, 1998 09:03
> To:	Jim Kidd
> Cc:	'Stephen Brown'; iteration@worldnet.att.net; port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> Subject:	RE: Question - NetBSD 1.3 mac68k
> 
> I have one of those drives in my machine.  It works fine with both NetBSD 
> and MacOS.
> 
> I used SilverLining for the driver for it... Still with no problems.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jim Kidd wrote:
> 
> > 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 
> > 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 
> > > entire contents of the netbsd mac68k directory, version 1.3.  I formatted 
> > > 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 
> > > installer, I get something like this, after selecting the Seagate as my 
> > > 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, 
> > > 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.
> > >      
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
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