Great pointers. Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Steffen Daode <sdao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > |I don't know what "console" is. I don't see anything at my Plan-9 Shell > |(RC) or on the screen in general. > > Note that Francisco J. Ballesteros has written an excellent book > on operating systems [1] that i also should read in total: > > «Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions. > Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs. > > <http://lsub.org/who/nemo/> > <http://lsub.org/who/nemo/papers.html> > [1] <http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf> > > --steffen > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:43:07 -0600 > Subject: Re: [9fans] 9Front network (driver?) issue > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:03 PM, <cinap_len...@felloff.net> wrote: > >> thats strange. when you plug in the drive, the nusbrc script >> started the usb disk filesystem and run that fdisk command to >> register the partitions. for some reason, the partitions >> step failed. but when you run it manually later it wored. >> > > I don't get the last two words "it worked" (I presume). After I execute > your command, I still don't see it under /shr/sdU* > > >> the drive might be sensitive to the timing? >> >> can you pull and replug the drive and see if there are any >> error messages on the console? >> > > I don't know what "console" is. I don't see anything at my Plan-9 Shell > (RC) or on the screen in general. > > >> >> as a work arround for now, you can try doing this manually: >> >> diskparts /dev/sdU6.0 > > dossrv > > >> mount -c /srv/dos /n/usb /dev/sdU6.0/dos > > cd /n/usb > > > Worked. Thanks! > > >> >> >> the dos filesystem does not do write buffering so there is >> no need to flush. (see dossrv(4)) >> >> mounts are local to the namespace. you can remove something >> from the namespace with the unmount command (see bind(1)) >> or you just close the whole namespace (close the rio window). >> >> for documentation on formating and partitioning disks see prep(8). >> >> -- >> cinap >> >> > >
