PROBLEM: Getting a LS120 Superdisk to work under Tru64
SOLUTION:
A wise man once said...........
"I have successfully mounted an LS-120 Superdisk (120 MB removeable
atapi
drive) on a Microway Screamer running Digital Unix 4.0F. The
motherboard has
2 integrated IDE ports.
Configure the LS-120 as master, and bring the machine up to SRM
console. The
drive shows up for me as dqa0 when I do a show dev. Boot /genvmunix and
rebuild the kernel to enable support for the ATAPI interface. After
booting
the new kernel, uerf shows me that an ata0 device is recognised and
lists the
drive - in this case it was rz8.
I have successfully labelled the disk with disklabel and created a ufs
filesystem on it. I have also managed DOS fat filesystem support by
compiling
the latest mtools (3.96) from
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/
which is one of the primary distribution sites. I then wrote an mtools
configuration file containing only
drive q: file="/dev/rz8c"
at /etc/mtools.conf (default installation would put it at
/usr/local/etc/mtools.conf, but that also looks in /etc next)
mdir q:
then recognises the disk, and
mcopy <file> q:
successfully transfers files so that I could read them on a MS-Windows
machine.
mtools as installed by the Digital Unix package DOSTOOLS does not appear
to
support the drive. It is possible that it might with the configuration
file,
but I did not attempt that after compiling the new version.
--
Randy Dees
SCA: Talorgen nei Wrguist
Unix Systems Administrator Comptek Amherst Systems, Inc. "
Thank you Randy!
--
Salvatore J. Guercio
Assistant UNIX Systems Administrator
Comptek Amherst Systems Inc.
(800) 631-0610 Ext. 394
sjg_at_ComptekAmherst.com
Received on Mon Nov 01 1999 - 13:54:56 NZDT