edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) (10/12/90)
vodall@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bill Vodall) writes: >Yes. The Amiga Minix runs on the 1000. I received my copy last night. >I did have to rebuild the boot disk as one of the critical files had >a read error. Fortunately a backup file was provided. >There may be some other gotcha's (the MS-DOS format utility hangs) but so far >it looks pretty good. Unfortunately I haven't got my copy of Amiga Minix for my 1000 yet (it's ordered), but I note with interest the remark about MS-DOS formatting. I have tried many packages on the 1000 to try and format MS-DOS disk, and most of them crash my Amiga. Is this something that happens with the many amigas, 1000's only, or my 1000 only. I didn't think much of it, until Bill mentioned this about Minix. Has anyone else had similar problems? rik. -- Rik Harris - edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au | Build a system that Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, | even a fool can use, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Australia | and only a fool will (say that with your mouth full!) | want to use it.
tba@pws.bull.com (Todd Aubin) (10/18/90)
edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) writes: >I have tried many packages on the 1000 to try and format MS-DOS disk, and most >of them crash my Amiga. Is this something that happens with the many amigas, >1000's only, or my 1000 only. I didn't think much of it, until Bill mentioned >this about Minix. >Has anyone else had similar problems? >rik. I have an Amy 1000 with an external drive and a hard drive, along with a a Microbotics hard disk controller and 2.5 Meg of ram. I use "dos-2-dos". It works great!!! However, make sure that you always specify the drive name. For example, you must say: format df1: This might sound simplex to some, but bare in mind that dos-2-dos asks the user for the device name to be used for ALL dos-2-dos work. I answer df0:, lets say. Therefore I expect that when I say "format", it knows I mean df0:. well, it don't. You have to say "format df0:" or sometimes you will get a lock up. -- Todd B. Aubin uunet!hbiso!tba or tba@pws.bull.com Bull Information Systems Inc. Technology Park, Billerica, MA 01821 (ISO Unix Marketing Support) 508-294-5794 (ICN)