[comp.os.minix] Minix vs. Club AT's

fluhrer@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Scott Fluhrer) (11/03/87)

Yet another hard disk problem:

A friend of mine is trying to install Minix on a Club AT with an Everex
(30 Meg) hard disk.  Problem we are stuck at: when we access the hard
disk (whether by mkfs or dd), the first couple accesses go through, then
we hit a series 'can not reset controller' errors.  The controller is
i/o port compatible with the IBM AT controller, and there are no bad
sectors on the disk.  We're stuck - any help would be welcome.

Say, what's a mountain goat doing	- Poncho the faithful sidekick
up here in a cloud bank?		  aka fluhrer@mandrill

pcm@ogcvax.UUCP (Phil Miller) (11/05/87)

<fluhrer@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Scott Fluhrer)
<Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland OH
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<Yet another hard disk problem:

<A friend of mine is trying to install Minix on a Club AT with an Everex
<(30 Meg) hard disk.  Problem we are stuck at: when we access the hard
<disk (whether by mkfs or dd), the first couple accesses go through, then
<we hit a series 'can not reset controller' errors.  The controller is
<i/o port compatible with the IBM AT controller, and there are no bad
<sectors on the disk.  We're stuck - any help would be welcome.

I have noticed similar problems after setting the date using the date -q 
command.  Try removing this from your /etc/rc file.  This is not necessarily
the solution to YOUR problem, but it seemed to work for me.

Phil Miller
pcm@ogcvax