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- Subject: Re: Questions about A2090 HD controller...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.125653.607@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 12:56:52 +1200
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- Rick Lang (Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP) wrote:
- > In a message dated Fri 28 Aug 92 2:40, kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A.
- > Kopack) wrote:
- >
- > MAK> Does this [A2090]interface support the FFS?
- >
- > Sorry my other posting was a bit hasty: the first partition needs to be the
- > old filesystem, but that can be one cylinder (of wasted space); all other
- > partitions then can be FFS via mountlist entry, for example:.
-
- it's necessary to have a OFS boot partition only if you're running wb1.x,
- with wb2.x the 2090a is quite happy booting off a FFS partition, making
- it possible to have _all_ the drive as one big FFS partition. Just prep
- it as normal, then when dos-level formatting it specify FFS (needless to
- say this isn't in the 2090a manual since they predate 2.04 by a few years:-)
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