Robert_L_Armstrong@cup.portal.com (04/10/90)
Hello, I have a true blue PC/XT with a WD winchester controller and a ST225 disk. I'm using Minix 1.3 and I can't seem to make a hard disk partition bigger than 2210K. If I use fdisk (the Minix version) to make an 8Mb partition #4 and then mkfs /dev/hd4 8192 gives Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/4, block 8191 Error: put_block couldn't write Line 1 being processed when error detected. I _can_ say dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/null count=10000 and it will copy 10Mb without complaint, however the same command for /dev/hd4 will fail for any count .gt. 2210. Any ideas ? Thanks, Bob Armstrong Robert_L_Armstrong@cup.portal.com