Installation to removable disks

"Matt Nawrocki" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:23:11 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi guys,

Quick question. Can NetBSD work properly off of a removable cartridge like an Iomega Jaz drive? I have an issue where /dev/sd4a doesn't exist at all, which causes my install to dump to a single user prompt and freak out. My internal hard drive does detect however, but I prefer to stick to the Jaz Cartridge so I can "simulate" a real SCSI disk drive (my internal drive uses an SD2SCSI emulator, which feels like a sanitized experience when used).

As another test, I booted the system installer (sysinst I believe?) And tried doing a scan for partitions to install to. Although my removable Jaz drive showed up during the initial boot sequence, the disk utility refused to acknowledge it's existence when I tried to scan for it, only showing me my four internal 2 GB partitions for the SD card. Is there a hard limit of 4 SCSI drives or something?

I've included a picture of my screen to give you all an idea of what I'm dealing with. Any suggestions are welcomed.

-- 
  Matt Nawrocki
  [email protected]
IMG_20190419_142233.jpg (image/jpeg, 742.6 KB) - not displayed