bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (11/07/90)
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Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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I recently installed Minix 1.5 on the hard disk of
my Compaq Deskpro 386/16 (1 - 5.25" floppy drive).
One partition of my hard disk is devoted to MSDOS, the remaining
3 partitions are for Minix. I am using the AT-Boot Disk.
Everything works fine except for the following:
When I use 'mkfs' to try to create a file system on my floppy, e.g.:
mkfs /dev/fd0 360
I get the following error messages:
"Unrecoverable write error on device 2/0, block 359"
"Unrecoverable disk error on device 2/0, block 359"
"Error: File system is too big for minor device"
"Line 1 being processed when error detected"
If I change the mkfs command to e.g.: mkfs /dev/fd0 200
I get a device error on block 199.
I have tried substituting the device, /dev/at0, but the problem remains.
I have also tried creating a proto file using 'mkproto'. Again, this
has no effect.
Any suggestions about how to rectify this problem would be appreciated,
since I need to backup my system and also make copies of my Boot disk.
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Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
"Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"