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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help formatting A/UX drives for NetBSD on Powermac Date: 22 Dec 1995 15:14:50 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4bei1a$6hd@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <bsmart-2112952047300001@10.0.2.15> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us NNTP-Posting-User: briggs Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:7394 comp.sys.mac.misc:105501 comp.sys.mac.programmer.help:19484 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1648 In article <bsmart-2112952047300001@10.0.2.15>, Bryan Smart <bsmart@cris.com> wrote: >PM6100 running system 7.5.1 >NetBSD 1.0 >Quantum Lp-270 Ummm... You do know that NetBSD will not run on the PowerMacs (neither 1.0 nor 1.1)? >MKFS does things like 5 retries at the beginning of formatting a file >system and thengives errors like "120 sectors at end of block not >allocated." > >When subsequently running the installer, it says things like "error 5, >unable to mount root." It additionally gives an error 22. I believe 5 is >the scsi error. It's possible that these tools will not run with the new SCSI manager. I've never used a 6100. I usually format and partition the drives on the system that they'll be attached to. -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k ** Where does all my time go? <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>