bdale@winfree.UUCP (04/02/87)
I have a 4.77Mhz PC clone that I am trying to bring Minix up on. The hardware
includes 640k RAM, one 40trk floppy drive, a WD1002A-WX1 hard disk controller
and a Rodime 204 20meg full-height drive. Dos can be made to format and boot
off of this hard disk combination fine.
When I bring up Minix on floppy, and attempt to do a
mkfs /dev/hd1 20000 (I realize this isn't all of the disk...)
the hard drive activity light comes on for a second or so, and then
Minix complains:
Kernel panic: WIN won't reset
Type space to reboot
at which point typing space will either result in a reboot or a hang, with
about equal frequency.
Before I got digging too deeply into the driver, I'd greatly appreciate info
from anyone who has any insight at all into what is going on here. Mail is
preferable, I'll summarize.
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