Re: Amiga 2000 Problems

[Steven Kile <avathar@lava.net>]

Janne,

On 02-Apr-01, Janne Johansson 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

> The openbsd web, especially the amiga page?

What URL specificly?  The only help info that I can find is located in the OpenBSD Amiga port files.  The install readme needs a bit of work.  It lost me a few times and it did not state in it anywhere that partitions have to be formatted with HDToolBox to work with OpenBSD.  This is a fairly major point.  It would also have been nice if the docs pointed out how to mount your ADOS partitions better, and finally.. mentioned that you can't write to them.  

I have been looking for an Amiga specific OpenBSD mailing list to ask for help, but I think this is the closest that there is.

> Adosfs is read-only, since noone has written code that could write
> amigados-filesystems reliably enough to not destroy amiga-OFS/FFS. Yet.

> It will work if you mount it with the "-o ro" option.

I tried this and I managed to get my system to mount the ADOS and CD filesystems as "Read Only".

> It would also be helpful if you could quote whatever error message goes
> with that particurlar command.

>> 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.
>> 

> As far as the compatibility list on www.openbsd.org/amiga.html goes,
> there is no such support.
> An output of "dmesg" would be nice though.

I beg to differ.  The hardware listed on http://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html lists GVP Series II SCSI controllers as being supported.  I have 2 such SCSI controller in my system and it only finds one of them.

I am not exactly sure how to get the dmesg info off of the OBSD side with my lack of being able to mount other writable devices.  I have not configured a dialup in OBSD, and I am not even sure exactly how to do that yet.  As it currently stands, I cannot get anything else off of my OBSD drives.

  Steve