hostetle@spot.colorado.EDU (HOSTETLER GLENN) (10/09/89)
I'm trying to use the second partition (non-DOS) on my hard disk for Minix. After booting, fdisk and mkfs will not even try to look at the disk. (The hard disk light doesn't come on.) Fdisk complains that it "Can't read Boot sector", and mkfs gives "Error: put_block couldn't write." Has anyone got Minix to recognize a Winchester WD1002S-WX2 controller? (On an IBM PC, NEC V-20, 20 meg Seagate ST225). Isn't Version 1.3 suppose to work with all Winchester controllers? Should I try the at_wini.c even though I have a regular PC? I'm new to Minix so I may be missing something obvious. However...when booting from the first disk, I can get Minix to at least go look at my partition by selecting the "h" option from the main menu. (But, of course, there is not yet a file system out there.) This is the only way I can light the hard disk light, and I hear the heads move to the other side of the disk where the partition is. Then, when the RAM disk is being loaded (disk 2 - root file system), a message quickly flashes across the screen: Can't read partition. When it flashes this message, however, it is not accessing the disk. Thanks, Glenn. hostetle@spot.colorado.EDU