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Subject: [NetBSD] tty00 - stty parity; disk problems...
Message-ID: <haley.751247229@scws5>
From: haley@scws5.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 21 Oct 93 23:47:09 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Well, having made my choice, I switched over to NetBSD. (This largely
cause I wanted to see what was up. I had the upgrade from 386bsd-0.1
to FreeBSD die, but not because of the upgrade script so much as not
using an appropriate compiler... Ah well...)
Anyway, a couple of problems...
1. Is there any reason why the system is setting tty00 to (cs7
parenb)? This seems to cause a problem with anything that deals with
curses or otherwise does screen management, in that I start to get
garbage in lieu of useful output...
My current solution is to do stty -parity, but this is at least
inelegant, in that I can't put it somewhere universal like rc.local,
cause it gets changed in the login process. The question is Where?
Neither gettytab or my termcap ever even *mention* parity, even in
comments.
2. For some reason, I can't get an error free run of disklabel -r wd1.
It *seems* to have written the label, but It says "bad magic number or
label damaged" when I run disklabel.
I tried running fdisk over it, but this didn't seem to help.
I have also used the BIOS to low-level format the drive, as well as
set the interleave, (It figured out that 4 was best. I think this is
more because it's an IDE drive than for any real disk performance
reason.)
Any ideas? Any Questions? Any Answers? Anyone care for a mint?
--
You are what you forgot about. Revenge is a beer served warm.
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