boba@netcom.COM (Bob Amstadt) (02/26/91)
I have now succeeded in installing MINIX 1.5 on my Seagate ST-251-1 in a 386SX system. The AT boot disk easily mounts filesystems from that MFM controller. UNTIL... I have a second hard disk controller. It is an an Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI controller. When I have it installed in my system, MINIX hangs when it tries to access the MFM controller. When I boot universal MINIX, I have no problem. But of course this goes through BIOS and that is ugly. Can anyone give me any clues or answers?
sunil@unix386.Convergent.COM (Sunil Bopardikar) (02/28/91)
I have Minix 1.3 running on an Altos 500 (AT clone) with 2 floppy drives. The trouble is that I have been unsuccessful in using the hard disk which has an ST506 RLL controller, which is supposed to be wichester compatible. Minix 1.3 comes with two hard disk drivers, at_wini.c and xt_wini.c. When I make the "kernel" file with either of them it is smaller than the "kernel" which is distributed. Also the kernel with xt_wini.c boots up fine but the kernel made with at_wini.c refuses to even boot. It gives a message saying something like "Error in booting. Trying to reboot". Ofcourse with the default Minix or the Minix I construct with xt_wini.c for wini.c , I cannot access the hard disk. ie. if I say dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/null count=1000 it gives me a read error. Has anyone come across something similar? I would appreciate your help if you have. -sunil