sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) (01/31/88)
Hello, I recently got a new HardDrive (30M RLL), and have been working on getting MINIX going on it. I have a friend who has an AT with a 30M RLL, who is giving me a hand (basicly so I don't have to try compiling off of floppies; I had to do that last time, not fun), but using his boot disk, MINIX boots fine, works just great, accesses the hard drive just fine (I was using od < /dev/hd? to test that), until I go to do a mkfs, at which time it starts telling me that that it has all sorts of unrecoverable errors, on at least 1/10th of the disk. However, when I switch the partitions over to DOS extended partitions, and reformat them, DOS thinks that the whole partitions are just fine. I don't know what the controller is, but the drive is a ST238, if that helps at all :-). Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, S. John Banner ...!uw-beaver!uvicctr!sol!sbanner1 ...!ubc-vision!uvicctr!sol!sbanner1 ccsjb@uvvm sbanner1@sol.UVIC.CDN
chris@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Chris Peck) (02/01/88)
In article <356@uvicctr.UUCP>, sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) writes: > > Hello, I recently got a new HardDrive (30M RLL), and have been > working on getting MINIX going on it. I have a friend who has an I ran into LOTS of problems with my ST-238 under MINIX 1.1 - I just finished upgrading to 1.2 last weekend and the only fix/modification I needed was to wini.c (the NR_SECTORS needs to be changed to reflect the number of sectors per track for RLL - 25 (decimal) instead of 17). Also, using the 1.2 version of mkfs worked ALOT better - now if I could just get a 1.2 version fsck.c I'd be all set - the .dif file I have barfs out when I try to apply it). -Chris