broman@cod.UUCP (04/15/87)
Here are my gleanings from posted reports of Minix running or not running on some system or with some particular hardware. These are preliminary reports, not guarantees based on full tests. Typos, misunderstandings, etc are very possible here. For further info contact the address given with each entry. Please help with corrections/additions as you learn more. Also, could someone report on exactly what controller chip is assumed in the Minix code for the IBM PC/XT hard disk? And what chips are "exact replacements" for it? ----------------------------------------------------------- hardware rumorer rumor Leading Edge clone ganesh@utah-cs.uucp runs Samsung clone ganesh runs IBM PC ganesh runs Maynard Corp Hard Card ganesh not compat Epson Equity 3 ast@cs.vu.nl runs with hard disk BIOS silent partner ast runs with hd Honeywell AP ast runs with hd Unisys micro IT ast runs with hd NCR PC8 ast runs but no hd IBM PC-AT @6MHz ast runs with hd IBM PC-AT @8MHz ast runs but no hd IBM PC-XT-286 ast runs but no hd Televideo Telenix 286 ast runs, hd? Compaq portable 1 ast not compat Compaq 386 ast not compat EGA video ast code not working Zenith Z-248 (AT) ast runs with 20Mb hd, not 30Mb hd Kaypro 286i (AT) comp13@tjalk.cs.vu.nl runs (by implication) WD1003-WA3 FDC comp13 (ogilvie) runs with posted fix Unnamed Asian Clone arthur@ubu.uucp runs Epson FX-80 prtr arthur@warwick.uucp unreliable prtr driver Xebec HDC with 20Mb disk arthur works, but hd <3Mb only the Amstrad lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk runs Amstrad steve@warwick.uucp but not from the hard disk Toshiba T1100+ stuart@bms-at.uucp runs, w/ 720K drive with posted fix Toshiba T1100+ bdale@winfree.uucp runs Zenith 181 bdale@winfree.uucp infer from friend that it runs 3.5in disks on Toshiba bdale@winfree supported with posted mod. WD1002A-WX1 HDC, Rodine 204 20M drive, bdale, won't run from HD Leading Edge, models M&D wegrzyn@cdx39.uucp runs Tandy 1000 kimery@wdl1.uucp won't boot Tandy 1000,1000SX,1000EX john@moncol.uucp won't run AT&T 6300 john@moncol.uucp runs with floppies AT&T 6300 HD dklann@marque.uucp couldn't mkfs on HD CT-6040S mono-graphics vid ctrlr go@orstcs.uucp supported with posted mod. Faraday motherboard jallen@netxcom.uucp runs with floppies IMC XT, 8MHz V20, Herc CRTC beugel@klipper.cs.vu.nl runs Kaypro PC ken@driwash.uucp runs Zenith 150 n0ano@wldrdg.uucp runs on floppies, cannot write HD Bernoulli disk acharya@sbcs has problems doing mkfs thereon ATronics AT clone hubble@cae780.uucp runs Seagate ST4906 80Mb HD hubble@cae780.uucp total confus ITT XTRA, WD1002 HDC, ST225 HD allbery@ncoast.uucp hard disk didn't work. WD 1002-WS1 HDC, ST225, go@orstcs.uucp HD works readonly or write-slowly Compaq DeskPro walker@xanth.uucp runs Compaq DeskPro 286 walker@xanth.uucp runs ARC XT clone m692040@sdsu.uucp runs Xebec HDC, 10Mb HD m692040@sdsu.uucp runs if minix on 1st partition Commodore PC-10 II ast@cs.vu.nl runs with HD IBM PC-XT ast@cs.vu.nl runs with 10Mb HD ITT XTRA ast runs Shitel ast won't run (PC6300) WD1002A-WX2 HDC, Tulin TL240 jcs@chinet.uucp works, but flakey at best In addition, I infer from comparing The Book with my Tech-manual (no test yet) that the Corona PC-400 should run minix also, with no problems. Vincent Broman, code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA Phone: +1 619 225 2365 Internet: broman@nosc.mil Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman
bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee) (04/19/87)
Here's another one.
I now have Minix pretty-much-running on a 4.77Mhz clone that started life
as a Tandy 1200, and which now has 640k, an Adaptec 2002 hard disk controller,
and a Rodime 20meg full-height drive (model 242, I think?). One 360k floppy.
Status is that the Hercules-compatible monochrome card behaves fine, but
I'm having hard disk trouble. Minix would only mkfs on the number 1 partition,
and wouldn't successfully mkfs a partition bigger than about 5meg. I am
definitely seeing write errors, most of which get recovered from fairly well.
In addition, using FDISK followed by the DISKFIX utility provided with Minix
DID NOT convert the partitions to non-dos. I ended up using the Ontrak
Disk Manager which I had lying around to create 4 5meg partitons, the first
of which is Minix' /usr, the fourth of which is PC-Dos 3.2 bootable, and the
middle two of which are waiting for fixes to Minix so I can mkfs them...
I tried both a Tulin 30meg 1/2 height and the Rodime on a WD1002 controller
with no luck at all. The mkfs always died with a panic about the wini not
resetting. VERY frustrating.
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