wxh@lanl.gov (William Harvey) (03/21/91)
I just got the Atari minix demo disk. When I try "mkfs /dev/hd8 16384" I get: No space on root device 1/0 Error: put_block couldn't write Line 1 bewing processed when error detected. If I try it again, there is a 10 sewcond pause, and then the same error. However, a "ls -l" shows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 16777216 Jan 1 00:07 hd8 When the system boots it has hd1 through hd5. Trying mkfs on one of those gives errors too. Trying mount on hd8 gives: mount: Block device required. 1I think the problem is number 1. 1. Under GEM, I need a hard disk driver. I have a Micropolis with several 16M partitions. This is attached to an ICD Advantaghe Plus. Is a compatabile driver loaded under minix? Can I load one with the demo disk? 2. mkfs in the accompanying manual show a -o option for systems other than floppies. That doesn't work either. Thanks for any help. Billy Harvey wxh@lanl.gov ^:w ..
scott@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) (03/22/91)
>I just got the Atari minix demo disk. When I try "mkfs /dev/hd8 16384" >I get: > No space on root device 1/0 > Error: put_block couldn't write > Line 1 bewing processed when error detected. > 1. Under GEM, I need a hard disk driver. I have a Micropolis with several > 16M partitions. This is attached to an ICD Advantaghe Plus. Is a compatabile > driver loaded under minix? Can I load one with the demo disk? I don't know. I was unfortunate enough to purchase minix 1.1 just before 1.5 (whatever) came out. Anyway, from my experiences with 1.1, I stopped trying. I got the same errors you got until I subtracted numbers from the size.... like 16383, or 16300... I think I had to end up doing 16100 to get it to work! Then, after the partition was formatted, fsck would pass, and when I would try to WRITE to the disk, well, chugga-chugga clank-clank, I would get disk errors every 12 sectors or so. I was uncompressing the 1.1 to 1.5 upgrade (thanx hyc!) and the uncompress took over 2 hours on my ST! That convinced me to do all my uncompressing on a sparc and use a floppy to transfer files to my hard drive and then copy them over with that minix utility for reading tos partitions. Anyway, what got me was the fact that: 1) The size was never exact (ie: 16384/16383 ) 2) fsck would pass yet there would be errors (ever 12 sectors?) 3) minix apparently doesn't check/re-write on error (I didn't bother to look) so my 2 hour uncompress was invalidated after the first sector error. 4) I was unable to stop the uncompress short of rebooting... If anyone knows anything about problems #1/#2 I would appreciate the info, I really WOULD like to at least play with the 1.5.xxx stuff. However, it does look like MiNT has minix beat by a long shot (IMHO) and it's about time I start writing MiNT utilities... Scott ps: anyone have tos 1.4 patches for STOS? Anyone ever heard of such a thing? -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to <game-design-request@cs.odu.edu> ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------