Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-11-04 Thread Swa Frantzen
it doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. Ok: I finally found the problem: my test disks all were a portable ones -powered from the USB bus-. Cause that's what I had around the house. I know the USB port needs to deliver enough juice to make it work, and I had taken that into account:

openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Swa Frantzen
I seem to have painted myself in a corner somehow. I can't upgrade without getting the data off of the system and it doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. The system: - amd64 - generic.mp kernel - OpenBSD 3.9 - contains an hardware raid card (AMI) creating 2 virtual sd drives: sd0 and

Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Laurens Vets
Hey Swa, I seem to have painted myself in a corner somehow. I can't upgrade without getting the data off of the system and it doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. stuff cut I could try to look at old school BSD stuff and think about building a new kernel, but the amount of don't

Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
Swa Frantzen wrote: I can't upgrade without getting the data off of the system and it doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. Use the network, Swa... ;) dump/rsync/rcp/sftp/ftp-put/nfs/wathever over a network link to a different machine, maybe one that supports your USB disk... It's not

Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote: Hey Swa, I seem to have painted myself in a corner somehow. I can't upgrade without getting the data off of the system and it doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. stuff cut I could try to look at old school BSD stuff

Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
You can probably boot an install CD and go to the shell. Assuming you can then see sd* at umass (which is fairly likely), you should be able to mount/newfs as necessary, and copy the data from the ami (pax/tar/cp/dd are available). Or if you have another system running that you can save a backup

Re: openbsd 3.9 umass not linking to a sd

2009-10-22 Thread Swa Frantzen
That would void the warranties on the external disks I'm afraid. Is there no way to get this working in a stock 3.9 ? And would it work in 4.6 ? SWA On 22 Oct 2009, at 20:30, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote: Hey Swa, I seem to have