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- Hello, I was hoping someone could help me with a problem.
- I have been trying to get the port of NetBSD for the amiga
- working on my A3000, and am running into a few problems.
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- 1. I can't use newfs on any of the drives on my system.
- one of the drives is the original Quantum that came with the
- sys, and the other is a Western Digital Piranha 4200 (on loan from
- my office). Everytime I do newfs, it gives me the following:
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- newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid Argument
- newfs: /dev/rsd0e: can't rewrite disk label
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- I thought I remember reading something that said that the scsi
- device driver was unable to update the disk label on the disk, and
- that it had to be done from the amigados side. I was unaware that
- newfs had to update the disklabel thought. The only thing I could
- think of was that it as attempting to write out the Super-Block for
- the filesystem, and failing. I checked the device, and there is
- no superblock at the front of it. In fact, even though newfs
- outputs all the locations of the backup super blocks, none of them
- look like they are super blocks, and fsck agrees with me on this point.
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- 2. My second problem, is that I can't seem to get any version of vmunix
- after 335 to work at all. I only have 450, and 613, but both of them
- just hang, the minute they set the scsi device to synchronous mode.
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- If you have time to give me any help, I would very much appreciate it.
- Also, I would like to set up a development environment for working on the
- kernel, and the other parts of the os. What i need is pointers on what
- kind of development environment you are using. I have gcc, and many of
- the other gnu utils on my amiga already. I guess what i need, is the
- source for the kernel, and the source for the os utilities. In addition,
- I would need to know what make facility it uses, and anything else I may
- need.
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- Also, If it is possible, I have a lot of room at work to play in, and if I
- could set up a cross development environment, that would be even better.
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- again, any help at all would be VERY APPRECIATED.
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- thankyou,
- Bill Costello
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