mikec@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael CIAVARELLA) (04/14/91)
Has anyone out there managed to install MINIX on a second hard drive IE. On Drive 2????? The partitions I created looked OK (I want to split a 40mb drive between MINIX and DOS) so I tried running mkfs to create a large (~25MB) filesystem. It gave an error on the last block - so I reduced the size of the filesystem until one had successfully been created. mkfs refused to create a filesystem past block 10397. Yet I had set up the partition to be about 25meg. The message I was getting was something allong the lines of unrecoverable disk error device 3,6 block 10397 File system too big for minor device Error in Line 1 I checked that the device numbers I was using were right (well they looked fine according to the table on pp86 of the minix 1.5 manual) Hoping that mkfs wasn't trying to put inodes on bad sectors, I crossed my fingers and tried rrunning mkfs with the -t (don't test size of partition option), which seemed to work. I then tried running readall as per the manual, but at block 10397 I got disk errors again, so I grabbed a cup of coffee, reformatted my hard drive at both low and DOS level and went to start again. This time, I noticed that when I was getting disk error, BOTH my drive lights were flashing SIMULTANEOUSLY. Can anyone help explain what my problem may be (besides being dazzled by hard drive buzzes, whirs and flashes :-)????? Thanks, (sorry to be a nuisance) mike