jscharles@cup.portal.com (John M Scharles) (06/09/90)
The Seagate 8 bit scsi interface has no ROM routines to handle floppy drives. The problem you're experiencing is due to the AMI bios looking for a signature byte 0x55AA at the end of the boot sector. Unfortunatly Minix stores some info in these last few bytes! You'll have to recompile the files that make up the image on the boot disk moving all the minix info up a few bytes, and add 55AA at the end of the sector. Remember to update all references to reflect to new addresses! By the way, the Seagate SCSI interfaces shouldn't present any great problem to writing a device driver for minix. I'm writing drivers for some other systems so maybe I can come up with one for Minix jscharles -- MindsEye -- 805 985 7977