A/UX Problems

[The Wandering Phew]

markj at halley.UUCP (Mark Jones) writes:

>Im a new user of A/UX 2.0 and I have two problems I can't solve.

>1. I'm using a Mac IIci with an internal Quantum 160mb drive (not Apple),and
>   an Apple 80SC external drive, on which A/UX is loaded. IUve used the 
>   Standard A/UX partition and loaded A/UX with no problems. When I boot
>   from the 80SC, the Finder comes up showing the MacPartition as the 
>   boot disk, and my 160mb disk as the second drive (all as it should).
>   However, when I launch A/UX, only the MacPartition shows in the A/UX
>   Finder. My 160mb Mac Drive is nowhere to be found. It is my understanding
>   that I should be able to use the MacPartition and my other drive. Am I
>   doing something wrong?

No. The partition map on the Quantum isn't right. It needs to be
reformatted, either with HD Setup (the version shipped with 2.0) or a recent
release of SilverLining. If it's not being mounted, it means that A/UX isn't
recognizing it.

Other possible problems with disks: if you're using a partitioning setup
that uses an INIT to deal with the partitions, you're out of luck. It's got
to use hard partitions (on the disk). And A/UX doesn't currently support
multiple MacOS partitions on a single disk.

>2. I'm using a Hayes 2400 Baud Internal modem in my machine. I canUt figure
>   out how to get A/UX to recognize the modem. I seems to only look at 
>   serial ports 1 & 2. The CDEV "HayesConnect" came with the modem, with
>   which you can force the machine to use the internal modem instead of
>   one of the serial ports. This doesn't seem to work when using A/UX.
>   Any suggestions?

Unless and until Hayes (or someone) writes an A/UX compatible driver, you
can't use it (we don't support any internal modems right now). HayesConnect
does a lot of really nasty stuff to the innards to convince MacOS that the
nubus card is really a serial port (all of which is necessary since term
progs only know how to talk to serial ports). You can't do that stuff under
A/UX unless you put the support into the kernel.

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