jco@mtuni.ATT.COM (J.OMALLEY) (10/22/87)
I also have hard disk problems. I have an AT&T PC 6300 with a DTC controller and a 10 MB Seagate drive. I acquired a driver for the hard disk, recompiled the kernel, etc., formatted the hard disk and made a file system of the whole 10 MB on /dev/hd0. After succeeding with this, I would really prefer to have a DOS partition in the first 100 cylinders of the disk, and the remaining 205 cylinders for MINIX. I partitioned and reformatted the hard disk accordingly. I then tried to do a mkfs on /dev/hd2 for 6970 blocks. mkfs failed stating put_block couldn't write, reporting unrecoverable disk errors on block 6969 (the last block) and blocks 0 -15. I have tried reducing the size of the file system to no avail. I tried creating a proto file and got the message "file system too large for minor device", or words to that effect. What is the way out of this bind??? Jan O'Malley (AT&T, Room 2E-329, 200 Laurel Ave., Middletown, NJ 07748) Please send email to jco@mtuni.att.com or ...[ihnp4!]mtune!mtuni!jco or call me at 201-957-2724.
mikko@penet.UUCP (Mikko Voipio) (10/25/87)
In article <299@mtuni.ATT.COM> jco@mtuni.UUCP (J.OMALLEY) writes: >I then tried to do a mkfs on /dev/hd2 for 6970 blocks. >mkfs failed stating put_block couldn't write, reporting >unrecoverable disk errors on block 6969 (the last block) >and blocks 0 -15. > I have had equally problems, too. I tried to make 5MB MINIX partition to my brother's XT clone with 20 MB disk. I think it is some kind of timing problems in driver. For all DTC users I can tell that I have modified MINIX 1.1 xt_wini.c so that it works with DTC 5150BX and my Miniscribe 3650 40MB disk. In that disk I have all four partitions in use. First two is PC/IX partitions ( 10 + 14MB). Then there is 6MB DOS and last 10MB is for MINIX. I haven't had any problems with any of these four partitions. My machine is a Turbo-XT -clone. I haven't tested my driver with 5150CX but if I remember right BX and CX model are software compatibel. So the driver can be tried to use with 5150CX.