> >> In a nutshell, I cannot get OBSD to mount any other devices other than . I have read all the documentation I can find on it and have resorted to some Linux books
>
> > The openbsd web, especially the amiga page?
>
> What URL specificly?

www.openbsd.org -> supported platforms -> amiga

> The only help info that I can find is located in the OpenBSD Amiga port files.
> The install readme needs a bit of work. It lost me a few times and it did not
> state in it anywhere that partitions have to be formatted with HDToolBox to work
> with OpenBSD. This is a fairly major point.

It's under the "Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation:" in the
INSTALL.amiga document, that itself is to be found at:
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/amiga/

I thought this part was rather clear actually.

> It would also have been nice if the docs pointed out how to mount your ADOS
> partitions better, and finally.. mentioned that you can't write to them.

This should rather be inside the newly installed OpenBSD (and on the web)
IMHO. But yes, it's not really obvious.

The (somewqhat shortish) amiga-port-webpage says that one of the
project would be to have a writeable ADOSfs. This might be a hint
that it's not at this moment. =)

> I have been looking for an Amiga specific OpenBSD mailing list to ask for help,
> but I think this is the closest that there is.

There isn't one, so don't worry about that. This is ok.

> > Adosfs is read-only, since noone has written code that could write
> > amigados-filesystems reliably enough to not destroy amiga-OFS/FFS. Yet.
>
> > It will work if you mount it with the "-o ro" option.
>
> I tried this and I managed to get my system to mount the ADOS and CD filesystems as "Read Only".

The CD shouldn't come as a surprise to you, being RO that is.

> > It would also be helpful if you could quote whatever error message goes
> > with that particurlar command.
>
> >> My second problem is that I have 2 SCSI controllers (both GVP), one on a separate card and one on my G-Force 040. It doesn't see the G-Force controller. Not a terrible problem, but it removes 7 of my 14 devices.
> >>
>
> > As far as the compatibility list on www.openbsd.org/amiga.html goes,
> > there is no such support.
> > An output of "dmesg" would be nice though.
>
> I beg to differ. The hardware listed on http://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html
> lists GVP Series II SCSI controllers as being supported.
> I have 2 such SCSI controller in my system and it only finds one of them.

That's why I'd like to see you dmesg, if possible. Perhaps the one on your
G-force doesn't look like a GVP-SeriesII even though amigaOS sees it that
way?

> I am not exactly sure how to get the dmesg info off of the OBSD side with my lack of being able to mount other writable devices. I have not configured a dialup in OBSD, and I am not even sure exactly how to do that yet. As it currently stands, I cannot get anything else off of my OBSD drives.
>

There is a neat package on aminet that's called "BFFS" or something like that
which allows you to read (and if you're really wild, write) BSD-filesystems.
If you run "dmesg >/mydmesg" and then from amigaOS reads this file, you
can move it from the bsd-world to amigaos and later to an email.
Incidentally, having BFFS is kind of neat as soon as you start to compile
new kernels and stuff, since they will end up inside the bsd-partitions.

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