jeremiah@compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen) (11/15/90)
Having just got vanilla PH 1.5/PC out of the box, I find it doesn't work with my machine. The bios_wini works perfectly, if a little slowly, but xt_wini doesn't get past block 69 of /dev/hd0 in the 'dd' command. /dev/hd2 & 3 (at cylinder 256 and 750-ish respectively) fail immediately. I've used bios_wini to get everything up and working otherwise, but it rather slow, and not really doing the job properly :-) Where do I go from here? Miniscribe 32M Hardcard (with integral WD controller), 3 head, 27 sector - fdisk can manage the partition table find with xt_wini, incidentally. Jonathan
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (11/16/90)
In article <memo.28535@cix.uucp> jeremiah@compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen) writes: >Having just got vanilla PH 1.5/PC out of the box, I find it doesn't >work with my machine. The bios_wini works perfectly, if a little >slowly, but xt_wini doesn't get past block 69 of /dev/hd0 in the 'dd' >command. /dev/hd2 & 3 (at cylinder 256 and 750-ish respectively) >fail immediately. The xt_wini driver assumes you have an XT disk, i.e. 4 surfaces per cylinder and 17 sectors per track. 4 x 17 = 68. When you go beyond that, i.e. 69 bad things happen. I think you should try adjusting the number of sectors and give that a try. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)