ma891424@lux.sait.edu.au (Turbo) (10/11/90)
Has anyone had any experience porting Minix 1.3 to a standard XT with a Miniscribe 3650 (40Mb) hard disk, and a WX3 Western Digital Controller? I have tried both with and without the auto_configure option of the xt_wini.c kernel file to no avail. When I do mkfs /dev/hd2 <number> it fails badly. It claims put_block (or similar) couldn't write, and then gives a whole lot of errors to do with device 3/2 (which makes sense). This is causing me great headaches, and I would appreciate if someone knows of a remedy (not of the headaches, but the disk!) - Dave. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David "Turbo" Gardiner /\/ | School of Mathematics & Computer Studies 3:680/822 (Tan80) \/\ | South Australian Institute of Technology ma891424@lux.sait.edu.au | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) (10/12/90)
In article <33140@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, ma891424@lux.sait.edu.au (Turbo) writes: > Has anyone had any experience porting Minix 1.3 to a standard XT with a > Miniscribe 3650 (40Mb) hard disk, and a WX3 Western Digital Controller? > [stuff deleted] I initially had problems with my 3650 when first connected to my ST until I removed jumper 3 from the drive; this junmper controls the "auto-park" feature which would confuse the driver if there was no disk activity for about 15 seconds... Maybe... > - Dave. > -- Good luck... Pierre Pierre Fortin Bell-Northern Research I know, my postings are Internet Systems P.O.Box 3511, Stn C terse and humourless. So? (613)763-2598 Ottawa, Ontario RIP: aptly named protocol fortinp@bnr.ca Canada K1Y 4H7 AppleTalk: Adam&Eve's design
burgess%creek.decnet@hsdp1.brooks.af.mil (CREEK::BURGESS) (10/12/90)
In message of (Thu, 11 Oct 90 16:07:51 GMT), "Turbo" Gardiner writes: >Has anyone had any experience porting Minix 1.3 to a standard XT with a >Miniscribe 3650 (40Mb) hard disk, and a WX3 Western Digital Controller? >I have tried both with and without the auto_configure option of the >xt_wini.c kernel file to no avail. When I do >mkfs /dev/hd2 <number> >it fails badly. It claims put_block (or similar) couldn't write, and then >gives a whole lot of errors to do with device 3/2 (which makes sense). >This is causing me great headaches, and I would appreciate if someone >knows of a remedy (not of the headaches, but the disk!) >- Dave. I am responding on the Net, since MilNet cannot talk to your host directly. I have virtually the same configuration. I used the following steps when I installed mine: 1) Low Level Format. 2) FDISK. <- Yes, I did both. I wanted to ensure 3) Boot Minix <- the partition table was OK. | 4) Minix Version of FDisk. <----------------------------------+ 5) Boot MS-DOS 6) FORMAT/S Partition 0 (/dev/hd1) 7) FORMAT Partition 1 (/dev/hd2) <- Leave this out, and you get errors from put_block, since the partition must be formatted. 8) Install DOS on "Drive C" 9) Boot Minix 10) mkfs /dev/hd2 8092 <- This number came from my Partitioning software, Minix does always report an accurate (for our purposes) number. 11) Re-Boot Minix <- Probably Superfluous, but why not? 12) Mount the beast. 13) GO. A good diagnostic is the "dd /dev/hd2 /dev/null 1000" command. If you get errors from this, then your partition isn't ready to go. I also had to beat up the XT_WINI.C file but (in the final analysis) "auto-configuration" took care of most of it. If your controller is RLL, you may want to make sure your NO_SECTORS (sic)is set to 26, not the original (MFM) sector count of 17. Also, for those who have stayed along who have problems with their RLL disk drive partition being 2/3 of what it should be: a hint. The ratio 17/26 is about the same as 2/3 (I had this problem for a while...) I had originally believed the controller documentation when it said it would look just like an MFM controller for me..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SSgt Dave Burgess School of Aerospace Medicine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programmer Tech School Motto: "We're off to be a Wizard..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------