[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Anders Magnusson]

Den 2017-05-11 kl. 01:20, skrev Johnny Billquist:
> On 2017-05-10 22:59, Alan Perry wrote:
>> There is definitely some confusion here. But note that Bob brought up
>> disklabel, not me. I was pointing out that I could not follow the
>> disklabel step in his instructions because there is no disklabel command
>> in the root path on my 4.3 BSD (it says 4.3BSD in the motd and the login
>> prompt).
>>
>> I already indicated that "newfs /dev/ra1c ra82" is responding:
>>  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
>
> Right. There is no partition table for DU RA 82. That does not imply 
> that it is looking for a disk label, but just indicates that the 
> driver to not have a table for this drive.
> The tables are (as Ragge mentioned earlier) compiled statically into 
> the driver.
Yep, and the message comes from the kernel, not from newfs.

Alan, there are no problems to just add a partition tables for a larger 
MSCP disks to the driver (using diskpart).
Just edit vaxuba/uda.c and recompile the kernel :-)

-- R

>
>     Johnny
>
>>  /dev/rra1c: cannot create
>>
>> I get the same partition message at boot time:
>>  ra1 at uda0 slave 1
>>  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
>>  ra2 at uda0 slave 2
>>  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
>>
>> I initially thought that this was a partition table in a disklabel, but
>> it been explained to me that the layout is compiled into the kernel and
>> there should be a matching entry in /etc/disktab. There wasn't one, so I
>> created a disktab entry for ra82.
>>
>> alan
>>
>> On 5/10/17 1:38 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>>> You have mixed up something here.
>>>
>>> There are no disklabels whatsoever in 4.3BSD, and nothing in newfs
>>> that cares about it.
>>> If your newfs complains about disklabels, you are using newfs from
>>> something else, not 4.3BSD.
>>>
>>> -- R
>>>
>>> Den 2017-05-10 kl. 21:15, skrev Alan Perry:
>>>> Your instructions say to use disklabel. However, there is no
>>>> disklabel in the default root execution path on the 4.3 BSD image
>>>> that I am running.
>>>>
>>>> On 5/10/17 11:03 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>>> If you look through those instructions I posted a link to, you'll see
>>>>> how to do a disklabel.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 10 May 2017 07:41:01 -0700
>>>>> Alan Perry <aperry at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have tried to run newfs on partition c and it fails, complaining
>>>>>> about the lack of a partition table.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 10, 2017, at 07:29, Jason Stevens
>>>>>>> <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If Im remembering right, straight 4.3 pre-dates the labels, it's a
>>>>>>> hard coded partition types in the drivers at this point.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you don't care, just use the 0c devices aka 'whole disk' ... or
>>>>>>> I recall that working well enough.
>>>>>>>> ----------
>>>>>>>> From:    Alan Perry
>>>>>>>> Sent:    Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:57 AM
>>>>>>>> To:    simh at trailing-edge.com
>>>>>>>> Subject:    [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What are the steps for adding storage to a SIMH vax (vax750, to be
>>>>>>>> specific) running 4.3BSD? I created disk image files on the host
>>>>>>>> OS of the proper size (for RA82s) and attached them through
>>>>>>>> the .ini file. However, they don't have partition tables and this
>>>>>>>> version of BSD doesn't seem to have a tool for creating them. So,
>>>>>>>> how do I put partition tables on the ra82 disk images?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> alan
>>>>>>>>
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