[comp.os.minix] Help needed

UNM409%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Volker A. Brandt) (12/19/90)

Hello all,

I received the following mail.  Since I don't know how to help, I am just
posting this (the author can't do that himself):

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> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 90 17:56:34 MED
> From: el-mar@proxxi.se (Elias M}rtenson)
> Message-Id: <9012151656.AA08454@proxxi.se>
> To: UNM409%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
> Subject: Re: Atari and the ICD SCSI Controller, will it work?
> References: <38357@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
>
> I'm sorry if you're getting irritated over this letter, but I can't send
> pulick postings on Usenet and I really need someones help on this...
>
> Since You seem to know quite much about MINIX-ST maybe You can tell me
> why I can't set up a second line in (on the RS232 port) thus enabling
> multiuser. I have compiled getty and setty properly, I have modified
> /etc/stty, and i have copied getty to /etc.
>
> Now, when I reboot my computer /etc/getty starts up properly (at least,
> that's what it reads in the processlist) but when someone calls I get the
> message:
> Sia: receieve error: number xx
> and the message:
> <something> Trap via vector #2
>
> And sometimes (when I have another setup in /etc/ttys) I get these messages
> every time the user presses a key.
>
> Could You please tell me what's wrong (if You know it of course. ;-) )?
>
> Could the error be in /etc/ttys or maybe in /etc/gettydefs (what is this file
> for anyway?)
>
> My configuration is:
> Atari 520 ST, 1MB memory, TOS 1.4, Megafile 60, monochrome monitor and
> MINIX V1.5.10
>
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