ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (12/04/88)
One of P-H's main distributors claims there is a manufacturing defect in
MINIX-ST (Atari version). I am not sure if this is true, but if it is, it
is a disaster. I would greatly appreciate it if everyone who has an original
set of MINIX-ST disks from P-H (not beta releases, copies, etc.) would
please do the following:
1. Copy fsck and sum to RAM disk.
2. /etc/umount /dev/fd0
3. Run fsck on all the original disks that are MINIX file systems.
4. Run sum on all the disks.
5. Send me a message telling whether fsck found any errors, whether sum was
able to read all the disks without error, and the sums.
Time is of the essence. If there really are problems, I want to find out fast
before they have distributed more. On the other hand, if there are no problems,
I also want to know. Johan is away, so I can't ask him to help.
Thanks.
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)alex@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Alex Ballantyne) (12/08/88)
These are the results I got from my MINIX distribution disks. These were obtained direct from Prentice-Hall in the UK. Sum checks and file system checks for MINIX-ST, ISBN 0-13-584392-8. Version 1.1 DISK fsck Result Checksum/No. of blocks 00.BOOT bad magic number in super block 44208/720 fatal 01.ROOT OK 61919/720 02.USR OK 50011/720 03.USER OK 30793/720 04.ACK1 OK 00494/720 05.ACK2 OK 35929/720 06.SRC1 OK 60350/720 07.SRC2 OK 10714/720 08.TOS bad magic number in super block 09624/720 fatal OK means fsck returned the usual information. I tried to mail these results, Andy, but they bounced. Alex Ballantyne Hewlett-Packard Ltd. South Queensferry, EH30 9TG Scotland. Tel. 031-331-7378