jay@hermix.UUCP (Jay Skeer) (07/27/89)
I just got minix in the mail (V1.1 !!) and was building a file system on a hard disk partition. Although I got the partion right, and built a file system (only smashed dos once), when I use the file system I get errors that look sorta like... Winchester task: got a message from -1 unrecoverable error on device 3\2 block Since the messages stick off the end of the screen, I can only assume they are complaining about (a small set of) bad sectors. So my questions are: How do I fix this problem? How do I lock out bad sectors on a minix partition? I am running V1.1 MINIX right out of the box, on an original IBM-PC (with the upgraded roms) with 448K of memory and one (flakey) 360K drive. The HD is a ST221 (Number? the standard seagate 20 meg MFM drive) and a WD controller. thanx j' More detail if you are still reading. I can often repeat the erring command, and succeed. If a 'cp' failed, i just repeat it. However I belive some of the files I write to the hard disk are still broken. That would explain the occasional times the sytem hangs after printing an error message similar to the one above.