[comp.os.minix] Limit on winchester partition sizes ??

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