larrym@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Larry Mulcahy) (02/17/89)
I have the Minix system on 5-1/4" disks and would like to get it running on my NEC Multispeed which is a 640K PCompatible using 3-1/2" disks. I have access to a system which has both 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" drives. On this XT the A and B drives are the 5-1/4" ones and the C and D drives are the 3-1/2" ones. I can easily bring up Minix, format disks, etc. My every effort to access the 720K 3-1/2" drives has failed. I tried mknod /dev/fd2 b 2 3 to get a device corresponding to drive C but no operation on this device would work. Is it necessary to write a whole different device driver? Has anyone already solved this problem?