jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) (01/07/89)
A recent message from Chuck_M_Grandgent@CUP.PORTAL.COM (paraphrased)
indicates that he has problems with fsck when the Minix partion is well
along on a 40 MB disk. Specifically, fsck complains that it will not do
anything with sectors > 65K and resigns.
I had the same problem (with a 40 MB ST251 harddisk, with DOS on hd1, and
Minix on HD2 (and root on hd3). I don't have the problem now. The following
is the data sheet:
(1) The ST251 has 6 heads. Therefore fsck has to be recompiled, with the
number of heads redefined as 6. Note: the version of fsck which has
been distributed as 1.3d does NOT have HEADS defined, in spite of a
note from ast to the contrary. However, there is a version, which I
think is 1535@ast.cs.vu.nl article, which does.
(2) This needs to be compiled to run under Minix (i.e., without the
-DSTANDALONE parameter). The binary can then be put under /usr/bin
and one can do an fsck /dev/hd2 or fsck /dev/hd3 with no problem.
(3) One can still not do the harddisk check at bootup time (i.e, by typing
h rather than =) since fsck will give the ">65K error" and quit. But
it can be used once you're booted up fine.
John Nallast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (01/08/89)
In article <6310@louie.udel.EDU> jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) writes:
[discussion of fsck and # heads].
The crc of the definitive 1.3 fsck is: 51921 45901.
If you don't have that one, let me know and I'll mail it to you. If many
people ask for it, I'll repost it. Before asking, check to see if you have
it, since I did post it earlier.
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)