hysell@kodak.UUCP (john hysell) (08/31/88)
I am using MINIX 1.2 on a IBM PC and an IBM AT-339. In both cases, I have attached a second hard disk to the standard hard disk adapter card. In both cases, I can do a MKFS on /dev/hd5, but in neither case can I use the minor device partitions /dev/hd6 through /dev/hd9. I perfromed a mknod on each of the minor devices with b 3 x as the arguments, where b is block type, 3 is the major device, and x is 6,7,8 or 9 as per the /dev name. When I attempt do do a MKFS on these device names, I get an error that MINIX cannot write the boot block. As Of this time, I am using the entire 20 meg /dev/hd5 as one file system, and all seems well. but I really would like to partition the drive properly. Has anyone gotten similar behavior out of 1.2? Am I missing something? -Thanks in advance... John