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From: tillemaj@cae.wisc.edu (John Edward Tillema)
Subject: FreeBSD - sio (com) and DOS HD problems
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 16 Sep 93 20:13:57 CDT
Message-ID: <1993Sep16.201358.26183@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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I have just installed FreeBSD with few problems, but am having a
couple in getting stuff working on it. I have read the 386BSD
FAQ and tried what it suggested for each of these problems, but
none of it worked.
1. I can't seem to talk to my modem via /dev/sio01.
When I connected to it, say by kermit, it just sits
there. When I try cu, it connects, and then gets I/O
errors as soon as I start typing. Details of the system:
2 16550s, and a SupraFAX 14.4 modem.
2. Is it possible to get info from a DOS hard disk partition
to FreeBSD? I tried creating a c device in mtools (2.0.7)
but that didn't work, I also tried creating a disklabel
(/dev/wd0h) for it (both are out of the FAQ), but again, that
didn't work. The changes I made were never present when I
would run disklabel again. It would say unused partition h
of size xxxx when I quit, then prompt if I wanted to overwrite
DOS parition table. Regardless of whether I answered y or n
it didn't save the changes. This is for a Conner 340 Meg IDE
drive.
Any ideas? I would like to get 2 working, but I'd settle for 1 so I could
re-download the files to the unix side as I have some files that are a tad
bit too big for transferral by floppies (eg. emacs).
Thanks
John
tillemaj@cae.wisc.edu