baumann@hope.UUCP (Michael Baumann) (04/30/88)
We are in the process of starting a port of minix to the protected
mode of the 386. We have a micronix 20mhz motherboard with
a miniscribe 3650 6-head; 26sector, and adaptec 2372 RLL controller. It
is the latter that is giving us trouble. Has anyone managed to get
this particular controller to work under MINIX? Any pointers- hints-
etc... would be welcome. Thanks in advance.
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or !ucrmath!jinx!baumannbrb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter) (05/05/88)
From article <219@ucrmath.UUCP>, by baumann@hope.UUCP (Michael Baumann): > We are in the process of starting a port of minix to the protected > mode of the 386. We have a micronix 20mhz motherboard with > a miniscribe 3650 6-head; 26sector, and adaptec 2372 RLL controller. It > is the latter that is giving us trouble. Has anyone managed to get > this particular controller to work under MINIX? Any pointers- hints- > etc... would be welcome. Thanks in advance. > > I have just (a couple of months ago) completed putting MINIX on a pc clone running at 4.77 and 8 MHz. I have an Adaptec RLL controller as well and had no small amount of trouble getting things to work right until I realized that the sector per track density was different with RLL. Once I came to this conclusion, I contacted my dealer to find out how many tracks per sector the RLL controller was using and found out that it was 25 instead of 17. I also had a few problems with the wini.c driver that I had with the 1.1 release of MINIX. I found that if I used the newer versions of xt_wini.c which work on the Western Digital controller and made the mods to that driver, things worked a whole lot better. Make note also that if you want fsck to work right as well, you will have to make the track per sector modifications there as well. Happy Hacking Brian R. Bainter