skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (05/23/87)
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I heard these questions had been asked before, but please bare with me as
I do not have access to USENET, and a kind sole posted this for me here.
So please respond directly to me.
This is my problem :
I have a PClone with 640K, WD-controller, MicroScience 20MB HD, single floppy.
I am having trouble installing minix on my harddisk. When I try
mkfs /dev/hd2 <some number>
minix returns lots of error messages of the following form
Winchester task got message from -1unrecoverable disk error on device 3/2, block
Error: put_block couldn't write
Ling 1 being processed when error detected
Hard disk won't reset.
Hard disk won't reset.
Hard disk won't reset.
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I have no problems running DOS applications on my harddisk, so is there
something special that MINIX does to the harddisk?
Other questions:
1) I also have an Adaptec RLL with a Miniscribe HD (giving 31MB). I tried this
combination and got similar results as above.
2) Can I put the root file system on the harddisk and thus freeing up more RAM?
I would imagine that RAM disk speed is not really necessary for the faster
machines (8MHz AT-type). Even for slower machines (like mine), it could
still be tolerated (i think).
Thanks for any help.
Again, please send replies directly to me, as I do not have access to USENET.
Derek Lee
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