3b2 Questions - Answers Appreciated

[flint at gistdev.UUCP]

Yea, Magic Mode is a lot of fun, but it can save tons of time: what
bugs me is why AT&T won't make it into something real and (heaven
forbid) document it.  If you want to mount things (like the hard
disk you are trying to fix) you have to do something like this:

fsys -m /tmp /dev/dsk/c1d0s0

And to unmount it:

fsys -u /dev/dsk/c1d0s0

Also: Make sure you get "POOF!".  I haven't done this for a while, but if I
remember rightly, entering "magic mode" at the one of the earlier or later
prompts (maybe the load device prompt) gets you a "POOOF!" (note the 3 O's,
not 2.)   I don't recall what the "really magic" magic mode with the 3
O's is used for, but I remember wasting a lot of time once long ago before
I found out about it: even most of the AT&T tech reps on the hotline don't
know about it.

Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
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