mpl@sfsup.UUCP (M.P.Lindner) (07/10/87)
Well, only having a couple of hours per evening to work on minx (after all, I have to earn a living) is hell, but I managed to get a little further. I got the hard disk fixes for the M24 (AT&T 6300) to compile, and built a kernel, and made a boot disk. I also couldn't reproduce the ram disk problem (which happened consistently before - perhaps the drive was flakey). So, I have a ram disk any size I want. So, the problems are: 1. the kernel is now abysmally slow. I may buy a C compiler just to see if I can speen it up (or I may hand-optimize, yuck). tty output is noticeably slower. At least that proves I rebuilt the tty task OK. 2. the kernel is significantly bigger, so that "cc" will not run without the "-F" option on my 640K pc with a 280K ram disk. 3. It doesn't look like the hard disk works anyway! I haven't reformatted and repartitioned the disk yet, as I'm too lazy to make backups until I have to (next week), but the drive light stays on in minix, and if I CNTRL-ALT-DEL, DOS doesn't know about the hard disk until I power down and up again, which is what happened without the hard disk fixes. Could it be that the code to identify the M24 isn't working, or is this normal for minix to do if it doesn't have a partition mounted? Again, next week I'll be debugging the hardware ID part of wini.c, and let you know. Anyone who has had experience with this, please save me some time and drop a line. Mike Lindner ....!ihnp4!attunix!mpl