ackerman@uvm-gen.uvm.edu (Steve Ackerman) (01/20/89)
I'd like to thank everyone for their input into the PS/2 problem. I've finally got Minix 1.3 to Boot on the Model 80 (exact time: 12:30 last night!). The solution was indeed to read the Floppy Disk Controller to shut off the interrupt. Since the interrupt function shouldn't issue a SENSE command to the FDC (well I don't know about "shouldn't" but I tried it there and it didn't work..), I masked off the diskette interrupt, re-enabled the 8259, and then let the Floppy Task issue fdc_out(SENSE)+fdc_results(fp) commands, which it does normally. I then had fdc_results re-enable the diskette interrupt. I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test it (that's tonight), and I'm going to try and fix a kludge with it, and then do a cdiff, and then test it again, etc. etc. Hopefully, I'll be able to post the cdiff next week sometime for those who want to use Minix on a PS/2 (out of curiousity, are there any??) One quick question: I've been using Minix 1.1 cc program because when I try to use Minix 1.3 cc, /usr/lib/cg gives a "Bad Word Size" error. Any ideas on what's wrong?? I'm just starting to use Minix, so I'm bound to ask stupid questions - please bear with me. T H A N K S ! Steve P.S. To Stephen Ligett: I've been receiving your mail messages, and replying to them. Are you getting the replies?? -- ============================================================================ Steven Ackerman | EMBA-CF University of Vermont uunet!uvm-gen!ackerman | Burlington, Vermont 05401 Internet: ackerman@uvm-gen.uvm.edu | Telephone: (802) 879-0371