Re: [9fans] 9Front network (driver?) issue

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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Great pointers.  Thanks.


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Steffen Daode <sdaoden@gmail.com> wrote:

> Blake McBride <blake@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 <blake@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_lenrek@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
>>
>>
>
>

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