steve_karra@f600.n713.fido.oz (Steve Karra) (11/22/89)
Original to: all Anyone who has had experience with getting the WINI.C driver (PC Version) to work with a Western Digital Controller and Qubie hard disk - please let me know. Presently the disk appears to be full of errors with the standard driver that comes with MINIX 1.1. The second partition has been marked as NON-DOS (XENIX) and sometimes the mkfs /dev/hd2 2074 works without error but then when I use it errors appear all over the place. Thanks for any help. p.s. I am using the PC (not AT) WINI driver which I had to compile and build into the new kernel. --- TMail v1.12e * Origin: Prophet TBBS - First TBBS in Australia (3:713/600)
jaeger@madnix.UUCP (Jay Jaeger) (12/02/89)
In article <16662@ultima.cs.uts.oz> steve_karra@f600.n713.fido.oz (Steve Karra) writes: >Anyone who has had experience with getting the WINI.C driver >(PC Version) to work with a Western Digital Controller and >Qubie hard disk - please let me know. >Presently the disk appears to be full of errors with the >standard driver that comes with MINIX 1.1. The second >partition has been marked as NON-DOS (XENIX) and sometimes >the mkfs /dev/hd2 2074 works without error but then when I >use it errors appear all over the place. >Thanks for any help. I used to have just such a configuration (currently a friend has it). I don't think your problem is the controller and disk, since the Qubie/ WD combination (at least the one I had) has the same sector / platter geometry as the original IBM PC/XT 10MB disk (although it has more cylinders). That makes the MINIX driver happy. HOWEVER, I did have to fiddle a bit. Things I recall being important: 1) I had to build the partitions with /dev/hd0. 2) I only got it to work with MINIX as the FIRST partition (but makred NON-DOS and NON-BOOTABLE. 3) Then I used DOS to build it's partition AFTER the MINIX one. It has been several months, and things are a little fuzzy, but if you play with it enough, you probably can get it to work. One thing I vaguely recall was the DOS would not even TOUCH a NON-DOS partition - not delete it, not turn it DOS, not nothin', so you have to build the MINIX partition with MINIX. I also vaguely recall that MINIX could not deal with being other than the first partition, but maybe I just did something wrong or wasn't careful enough...