jcs@chinet.UUCP (John C. Sucilla) (04/13/87)
Well, I finally got Minix talking to my hard disk (but boy, is
it ever flakey). Here is the hardware were talking about:
AT&T PC6300, 640K
WD1002S-WX2, Tulin TL240
I think its talking now because I did a low level format with
interleave = 5, which is worst case for this combination.
I had it previously set to 6. I also have been playing around
with using the internal BIOS VS controller rom.
Currently, I have the 6300's dip switch 1, switch 3 set to internal
and the controller's rom enabled (W3 closed). This had caused a conflict
earlier when I accidently set them this way but isnt a problem now
(dont ask me why, it must be FM!).
My partition table currently looks like this:
Partition Status Type Start End Size
1 A DOS 0 250 251
2 N non-dos 251 600 350
Hard disk I/O (mkfs, cp, etc.) fail intermittantly. I *THINK* the
problem is still related to the interleave because errors occour
in a random order although the blocks are always the same.
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John "C". Sucilla Chinet - Chicago, Illinois
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Don't let reality stop you.....
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John "C". Sucilla Chinet - Chicago, Illinois
...ihnp4!chinet!jcs
Don't let reality stop you.....