misha@nsc.nsc.com (Michael Umansky) (06/25/87)
This is a supplement to my previous posting about having problems with floppy drives. After more checking I found that if I stay with floppy drive A (0) and do not access floppy drive B (1) the system runs fine. As soon as I either mount a floppy on drive B (1) or do some IO operation to that drive the system hangs and F1 shows the process waiting for FS. Also, initially 'update' in F1 will show waiting for MM (idle) but then when it kicks in it also hangs waiting for FS and only reboot saves. On a separate note, I compiled and ran the 'readfs' utility posted by * * Author: Paul Polderman (polder@cs.vu.nl) April 1987 * on my Venix and it ran perfectly. You have to get the necessary include files from MINIX floppies to your target system except for 'stdio.h' which should be your local one. I also removed unnecessary passing of a file descriptor for special device and made it global. There was one long name conflict starting with 'special' which is easy to fix. Thanks to Paul for a useful utility. -- NAME: Michael Umansky (misha) E-MAIL: sun! ----\ hplabs! --\ pyramid! --+----> nsc!misha decwrl! --/ amdahl! -/ WORK: National Semiconductor Corporation 1135 Kern Avenue, Mail Stop - 7C266 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 721-8109 (work) HOME: 4331 Lincoln Way San Francisco, CA 94122 (415) 564-3921 (home)