danson@udel.edu (Douglas Anson) (03/14/91)
Hello! I am running minix 386 on a 33 Mhz 386 would like to know if anyone has successfully built such a system where only 3.5 in drives are present on the machine. Right now, I have a 5.25(A) and 3.5(B) drives but will be losing the 5.25 shortly. I plan on making the 3.5 drive drive A. Is this possible? I tied this but my /dev/ files didn't seem to be correct for the single 3.5 drive configuration. Would I mknod /dev/at0 b 2 8 1440 for the drive or would I use the same minor number as was used with the 2 drive system? (which BTW works wonderful --- thanks to all who make 386 minix possible). cheers! doug anson danson@udel.edu Univ. of Delaware
eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael) (03/15/91)
In article <47487@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, danson@udel.edu (Douglas Anson) writes: > Hello! > > I am running minix 386 on a 33 Mhz 386 would like to know if anyone has > successfully built such a system where only 3.5 in drives are present > on the machine. Right now, I have a 5.25(A) and 3.5(B) drives but will be > losing the 5.25 shortly. I plan on making the 3.5 drive drive A. Is this > possible? I tied this but my /dev/ files didn't seem to be correct for the > single 3.5 drive configuration. Would I mknod /dev/at0 b 2 8 1440 for the > drive or would I use the same minor number as was used with the 2 drive > system? (which BTW works wonderful --- thanks to all who make 386 minix > possible). > I must admit that I didn't even bother to think about this when I put MINIX-386 up on my machine, which has two 3.5" floppies. Don't worry about the /dev/files at all unless you want to use 1.44Mb floppies, in which case you will need to see what the 1.5 manual says about /dev/ps0 and /dev/PS0. Otherwise you will only be able to use 1.2Mb worth of the 1.44Mb drive. Apart from that, it isn't a problem. Regards Andy Michael -- Andy Michael "You might think that. I 85 Hawthorne Crescent couldn't possibly comment." West Drayton - `House of Cards' Middlesex email: eesrajm@brunel.ac.uk UB7 9PA or Andrew.Michael@brunel.ac.uk