dstrombe@ucqais.uc.edu (Dan Stromberg) (01/10/90)
Hello all. I'm finally going to attempt putting minix on my machine. Ideally, I'll come up with two things: a 1.1 working with my hard disk, and a protected mode 1.3. Maybe some fun with 1.5 later... Below is a description of my machine. I'd appreciate information about any pitfalls that may be associated with this hardware. I see in the "compatibility list" that someone with username comp13 has a patch for some version of minix, with a WA3 hard disk controller. comp13, are you around? Anyway. Here's my machine, in a nutshell: - Suntac MB286-C (12.5MHz, AWARD Bios) motherboard - WA3 hard disk controller - Standard AT 20 Meg, type 13 hard drive (only one drive failure so far...) - One 1.2 Meg floppy - Adonics hercules card with parallel port - 2 meg ram (slow disk, big disk cache...) Many Thanks From: Dan Stromberg (...!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!ucqais!dstrombe)