On 2004-07-13, =?windows-1252?Q?=3F=3F=3F=3F?= <saitoh@kankyo-u.ac.jp.nospam> wrote:
>> The only thing that can run on the 1850 and 712 is NEWS-OS. I got
>> (images of) three floppies and two tapes with NEWS-OS 4.1.1. I
>> installed a Micropolis 1588 harddisk (639MB), which is not recognised by
>> the kernel.
>
> Do you mean the disk is recognized as a ``unknown'' type disk by kernel?
> Or, kernel recognized no disk device?

It is recognised as 'unknown'.

> As far as I know, NEWS OS can handle any SCSI disk even if it is
> not found in-kernel disk type catalog. Unknown type DISK has
> minor performance problem because disk cache is disabled.

Before I changed the disk, it would boot, the kernel would recognise
'sd0: UNKNOWN' but I was unable to partition/newfs/disklabel the disk.

Thank you for replying!

Regards,
Walter.
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