Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ksand From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0.1 questions Message-ID: <50123@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 11 Mar 91 18:25:58 GMT References: <1991Mar6.181713.5362@nas.nasa.gov> <50005@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 38 In article gf0c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory S. Fox) writes: >Kent Sandvik writes: > >> I've tested both CMS and Silverlining for A/UX disk partitioning, and even >> if their interfaces are bizarre, they do their job quite well. > >> In some cases, like using LaCie hard disks, you have to use the specific >> disk partition program in order to download the right hard disk drivers. > > I've installed A/UX on a Cirrus 200 partitioned with Silverlining. From >some of the problems I've encountered, I thought the difficulty was with the >A/UX generic driver. Can you provide any more info on Silverlining/LaCie >drives. Sorry, there's a place for a clarification. Last week we tried to install A/UX on one of those cute LaCie 165MB hard disks. The normal trick of just dumping over the stuff (dd) resulted in bizarre behaviour, the root partition worked OK, while the second partition (from the original disk) did not work at all with the A/UX dev driver (complaining about 0x21 unsupported call). Now we were short of time, so what we did was to partition the disk with Silverlining, downloading the partition map from this program. After that we dd:ed the root disk, and just to be secure we newfs and cpio:ed the other partition. And behold, now it worked perfectly. I'm not sure yet what was the original problem, eventually something that the SilverLining partition program reprograms in the Hard disk (disables some SCSI modes...). It also seems like there's a sanity check somewhere in the drivers or the kernel, so one of the partitions could be mounted during startup, while when the other was mounted it started to scream. I have to look into this (later after I've finished a couple of hundreds of hours of MacApp work). Kent -- Disclaimer: Private and personal activities on USENET, non-company sponsored