toms@oakhill.UUCP (Thomas Spohrer) (10/15/87)
A friend is trying to bring up Minix on his 6300 that has an
Adeptec RLL hard disk controller. So far no luck. Does anyone have
any suggestions? Will the standard XT driver work or will another
driver be necessary? The controller is a standard PC compatible RLL
not a propriatary AT&T controller (sorry I do not know the model number
off hand).
Thanks in advance.
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Motorola Semiconductors Tom Spohrer
Austin, Texas {seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!tom-NU070156%NDSUVM1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (Glen Overby) (10/17/87)
> A friend is trying to bring up Minix on his 6300 that has an >Adeptec RLL hard disk controller. So far no luck. Does anyone have >any suggestions? Will the standard XT driver work or will another >driver be necessary? The controller is a standard PC compatible RLL >not a propriatary AT&T controller (sorry I do not know the model number >off hand). We have brought up Minix on an Adaptec 2,7 RLL controler in a Zenith 158. I used the xt_wini that was posted by Dr. Tanenbaum as a 'pre 1.2' release and supported the Western Digital controler. The only change that had to be made was to change the number of sectors per track from 17 to 25 (there are actually 26 sectors per track, but the last one is reserved as a possible replacement for a bad sector). It has worked flawlessly. Glen Overby Bitnet: nu070156@ndsuvm1 UUCP: uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby