en120ai@unm-la.UUCP (mary barts) (07/26/87)
I have been using MINIX 1.1 for about a month now. I have noticed that the hard disk driver seems very buggy (IBM 20 meg HD on an XT). I won't bore you with all the details (I have not had USENET access for the past several months, and details of problems just like mine have probably been posted at least a dozen times), but in general fsck always reports oodles of problems, even though the disk seems to work okay. Sometimes MINIX stops in its tracks with a "winchester task got -1 message" or something similar to that (don't remember the exact words). I am interested in bug fixes for this. I have read a few recent articles, and it seems that MINIX 1.2 has been released. The diffs (along with a patch program with which to use them) would probably be the best "bug fix." I can have a friend get things off of arpanet with ftp, and that would probably be better than mailing the diff files. DON'T mail any large amounts of source code - just offer what you have and I'll ask you to send it if I want it. DON'T send mail to this account - it is temporary and will go away in a week or so. Send to: tcb@lanl.gov or ihnp4!lanl!tcb Mail is prefered over posting to this newsgroup, as my access to readnews is limited. Thanks in advance, David Barts