sehr@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (01/27/89)
I am trying to load Minix on my Z-151 with two floppies and a hard
disk. The hard disk is an ST-225 with an Everex EV-390
(based on a WD chip set, I believe) controller. I have version 1.1 of
minix, and have been able to run it on my machine, except I cannot
get mkfs to create a file system on /dev/hd2 (partition 2). It
reports:
put_block couldn't write
Error occurred while processing line 1 (or something to that effect).
This is the error I still get when I install the xt_wini.c in the
1.1-1.2 upgrade, although it says it should work with the Western
Digital controller chips.
Has anyone else out there succeeded in getting Minix to make a file
system on the Everex 390/ST-225 combination?
Also, could someone please send me (or point me to an FTP site where I
can get) the clock driver for the Quadram Quadboard?
Thanks in advance,
David
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David C. Sehr
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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BITNET: sehr@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edubryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote) (01/29/89)
What was the starting and ending cylinder of your MINIX partition. I got the same error on my ST225 when I had a partition greater than 100 cylinders. Also, making a second partition starting at a range greater than cylinder 100 also failed. The only way I got it to go in was with a MINIX partition starting at cylinder 1 and ending at cylinder 100.