hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) (10/23/88)
Hopefully someone can help me with what is probably a stupid
error on my part. I am currently trying to install FFS partitions on a
freshly reformatted harddisk. I have a GVP scsi board and a Seagate
ST251N. I have had no problems with this setup in the past. I have a
small initial partition that has been formatted normally, and follow
that with a 8.4 meg partition that I have formatted with the FFS
option. My mountlist entry for that partition looks like this:
FH0: Device = scsidev.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 4
BlocksPerTrack = 16
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 27; HighCyl = 305
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 0
Stacksize = 6000
Globvec = -1
Filesystem = sys:l/FastFileSystem
Dostype = 0x444F5301
#
The drive formats fine, and I can copy files to the FFS
partition and from it with no problem. When I try to run something,
though, the machine gurus. My small "normal" partition works fine.
I have FastFileSystem in my L: directory and scsidev.device in my
Expansion directory. I've triple checked everything.
I have played with this for two days now. Anyone that has done
this successfully, I would appreciated any advice or suggestions. I
feel quite stupid right now.
--hal
hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnetbrianr@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer) (10/25/88)
`ncsuvx!hgm' has apparently fallen victim to the same error I
got bitten by while trying to get the FFS up on a GVP hard card.
His mountlist entry, as paraphrased, was:
option. My mountlist entry for that partition looks like this:
FH0: Device = scsidev.device
;
; stuff deleted
;
Stacksize = 6000
Globvec = -1 ; <-- This is the culprit!
Filesystem = sys:l/FastFileSystem
Dostype = 0x444F5301
#
Ha! Looked in the devs:mountlist file on the WB1.3 distribution disks,
didja? Cut the FFS-pertinent lines out of the example `FAST:' device
and pasted them into your own device list, huh, as if they were supposed
to work or something?
Never mind that the example shows the value of `Globvec' to be -1,
it's supposed to be just plain 1, like the Enhancer Software manual
says on page A-2.
Never mind that we don't know what'n'ell `Globvec' does, and that its only
description (page 3-2) suggests that its only standard values are zero
an minus one, just as the sample mountlist shows. Use positive one.
Hopefully helpfully,
Brian Rhodefer ...!tektronix!tekig4!brianr