Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-15 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/15/2018 11:27 PM, Michael van Elst wrote: netbsd-embed...@gmx.com (Don NetBSD) writes: How can I determine the number of /potential/ disk devices (sd(4)) that a system MIGHT support -- *if* the drives had been installed prior to boot? That would be difficult. sd(4) is used for several di

Re: Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-15 Thread Michael van Elst
netbsd-embed...@gmx.com (Don NetBSD) writes: >How can I determine the number of /potential/ disk devices (sd(4)) >that a system MIGHT support -- *if* the drives had been installed >prior to boot? That would be difficult. sd(4) is used for several different kinds of disks, including virtual ones a

Sizing hardware drive capabilities (in the absence of probed devices)

2018-09-15 Thread Don NetBSD
How can I determine the number of /potential/ disk devices (sd(4)) that a system MIGHT support -- *if* the drives had been installed prior to boot? E.g., if I have a 15 slot backplane but only have a drive installed in slot 13, then *that* appears as sd0 and there is no mention of the potential f

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-15 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/13/2018 11:35 PM, Michael van Elst wrote: netbsd-embed...@gmx.com (Don NetBSD) writes: | > SMART [...] so it is clearly possible. | | I think only via wd(4)? Oh, you mean, not sd(4) - yes, possibly. Sorry, I have no idea how one would access that kind of data over scsi. I

Package binaries for NetBSD 7.2

2018-09-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Hi, NetBSD 7.2 was released a few weeks ago. Are there any plans to bulk build pkgsrc for this version? I tried to use ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/7.1_2018Q2/All/ , this generally works, but there are a number of newer shared libraries in 7.2 which block the installation o

Re: Why is TERM=vt100 on the console?

2018-09-15 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:32:53PM +, Valery Ushakov wrote: > Or even better, change console to off and ttyE0, which is already set > to wsvt25, to on. This is the default e.g. on macppc (of the ports > that I use). Yes, that is what I'll make sysinst do (unless you installed serial console b