#PSWHER%WMMVS.BITNET@cuvma.columbia.edu (02/11/88)
We're having some problems with Minix 1.1 and a 360k drive on a PC-AT clone that I was wondering if anyone has seen before. Minix boots without incident and behaves completely normally so long as the 1.2M floppy drive is the only one used. I personally have a PC-XT and wanted to move Minix to 360k disks for use on my system. Things went okay until I tried to copy a number of files from /dev/at0 (the 1.2M floppy) to /dev/fd1 (the 360k drive). After some indeterminate amount of time, the 360k drive emits noises that some have likened to that of a fire alarm as it tries to step past the limit stop at either track 0 or 39. Both disks have been initialized with properly-sized file systems (1200 and 360 respectively). I have no problems writing files to the 360k disk if I place it in the 1.2M drive, though it was formatted in a 360k drive on a normal double density disk (this is as it should be...) Any ideas? Phil Wherry student, The College of William and Mary #pswher@wmmvs (bitnet) psw%wolfgang@gateway.mitre.org (arpanet)