Re: Amiga 2000 Problems

[Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:23:09PM -1000, Steven Kile wrote:
> Hi guys,

> I recently installed OpenBSD2.8 on my Amiga 2000 G-Force 040.  I am having some troubles and could use some assistance.  If anyone else is running OBSD on an Amiga, I would appreciate hearing from them to try to iron out some of my problems.

> I am running OpenBSD2.8 on an intel platform at work, so I have a little practice on a working OBSD box and can see my Amiga isn't working corectly.

> In a nutshell, I cannot get OBSD to mount any other devices other than .  I have read all the documentation I can find on it and have resorted to some Linux books as a last resort.  I have tried mount -t msdos /dev/sd3a mnt/jaz (for a PC-formatted JAZ disk), mount -t ados /dev/sd2a /mnt/ados (for an Amiga-formatted HD), mount -t cd9660 -r /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom and I can't even get it to mount a swap file.

The routine in amiga/disksubr.c only recognizes partitions which have been
created with hdtool. This is inconvenient, as indeed it makes it impossible
to mount stuff created on other systems without getting through hdtool
first.

Fixing that requires rewriting some code. Specifically, getting an 
arch-independent routine that matches all kinds of labels in whatever order
you want to make it easier to exchange data between systems... (note that
you won't be able to read amiga disks on an i386 system either).

It's on my todo list, but with a not so high priority, as I'm doing a lot
of things already.

> I get "Read only File System"; "Device not configured"; "Input/Output error" and such.
> 
> My second problem is that I have 2 SCSI controllers (both GVP), one on a separate card and one on my G-Force 040.  It doesn't see the G-Force controller.  Not a terrible problem, but it removes 7 of my 14 devices.

Does it appear in the dmesg, or not even there ?