certain@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (03/01/90)
I set up an A/UX system last summer and have pretty much just let in run since then. I now have to make some changes and have forgot most of what I know. In addition, my support hotline account has, of course, run out, so..... I have a Mac/OS program that controls the serial ports in what is probably a low-level way. The product is called Teleflex and it is a voice-mail machine for your Mac. When I run it, it says "checking hardware connections" and then stalls. I assume it's trying to access the hardware unit connected through the serial ports, and A/UX won't let it. Any ideas? The other question which probably has an obvious answer is how do you mount a disk in single-user mode? Thanks for any help, Andrew Certain certain@cs.unc.edu
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) (03/08/90)
In article <12315@thorin.cs.unc.edu> certain@vangogh.cs.unc.edu () writes: >I have a Mac/OS program that controls the serial ports in what is probably >a low-level way. The product is called Teleflex and it is a voice-mail >machine for your Mac. When I run it, it says "checking hardware connections" >and then stalls. I assume it's trying to access the hardware unit >connected through the serial ports, and A/UX won't let it. Any ideas? No chance. You should rework your code for A/UX to use more conventional UNIX techniques namely opening /dev/printer or /dev/modem (otherwise known as /dev/tty0 and /dev/tyy1) and using ioctl calls to set baud rate etcetera. You'll hate it but A/UX is never going to let you see the hardware. A more Macintosh solution is to rewrite your Mac stuff for the Comms Toolbox and hope that A/UX gets Comms Toolbox emulation (though without your support contract you probably won't get such a new version...). >The other question which probably has an obvious answer is how do you >mount a disk in single-user mode? Easy. Type the commands pname -a mount -at 5.2 to get all of the normal filesystems mounted (except NFS ones, but you'd need to do various other things to get your machine ready for those). A cautious person would probably run fsck before the second command to make sure the filesystems were OK, but isn't life boring if we never take chances... >Thanks for any help, > Andrew Certain > certain@cs.unc.edu No problem, other than the fact that about 1/3rd of the messages that I see on this group actually come from me or my colleagues! Is there a lot of stuff over in the US that doesn't make it across the Pond, or does nobody read this group? -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 01-975 5250 (Fax: 01-980 6533)