johnc@mia.UUCP (05/12/87)
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I am posting this fix seperatly from the tandy 1000 fixes.
It allows minix to operate with the tandy 1000 hard drives ( Western
Digital & Xebec ). It took quite some time to find this (bug?), by
reading betweed the lines of the WD manuals. The errors that are
seen are:
Can't reset WINCHES.....
Unable to read block....
To fix wini.c delete lines 550 thru 554.
The wd controlers don't seem to drop the REQ flag after all 6
bytes of the command have been sent. Western Digital seems to say it
will only be droped when a byte is needed, not when it dosent want any
more data.
I have been using this fix for a months and have had no problems
at all. Please try this fix and let me know if it solves the hard drive
problems on other computers.
John Clark
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John Clark - System Administrator, Super-User
Tandy Business Products Service Center
10010 Griffin Rd
Coopercity, Fl 33328
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