> Do our VAX disk drivers for Unibus/Massbus hardware retain the compiled
> in partitioning as a fallback? Without it, it'd be tough to even read
> old Unix filesystems without modifying the disk contents (to write either
> an Ultrix or 4.4BSD label into place).
dkctl(8) in modern netbsd would
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > You must be misremembering something.
> Looks like it.
>
> So disklables are a BSD thing, not a DEC thing?
Ultrix has a disklabel format, and I've moved drives from VAX to MIPS
Ultrix systems, so the answer really is "it depends". I
On 2016-12-28 20:14, Edgar Fuß wrote:
You must be misremembering something.
Looks like it.
So disklables are a BSD thing, not a DEC thing?
Late into this discussion but anyway...
DEC did disklabels in Ultrix, which is a different implementation than
the disklabels in BSD, as far as I know.
> You must be misremembering something.
Looks like it.
So disklables are a BSD thing, not a DEC thing?
Hi Edgar,
4.3 did not have on-disk disklabels.
Really?
My first encounter with BSD was ~1983 on a VAX 11/750 which switched between
VMS and 4.2BSD (or 4.3, definitely not 4.4) every other day and I think it had
two disc packs with different partition layouts.
I also remember ws@ (who was
