steve@warwick.UUCP (03/27/87)
In article <355@its63b.ed.ac.uk> scott@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes: > >I have seen some discussion about minix on the Amstrad, but I haven't >seen anyone actually come right out and say they have seen it running >with the Amstrad hard disk. Well folks? I'm dying to know before I >rush out and spend my pay rise on an Amstrad. ;-) > OK, so I'll actually come right out and say it. No. There, I've done it. That is, a kernel that "works" on an XT clone will not touch the Amstrad hard disk at all - "unrecoverable disk error" from block 1. I haven't yet had time too look into it and find out why. I don't even know which controller chip the machine uses - hopefully it will be something other than Xebec (the standard PC controller) and that is the problem. There are bugs in the MesSDOS format program that cause the bad block list to be totally wrong (so I am told - Amstrad may have fixed this by now), but that would cause MesSDOS to not work either, and it is completely happy with the disk. Oh well. If anybody can shed any light on this problem, I would be grateful. >--Scott Larnach Steve. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ |UUCP: ...!ukc!warwick!steve | Steve Rumsby | |JANET: steve@uk.ac.warwick.maths | Maths Institute | |ARPA: steve%uk.ac.warwick.maths@ucl-cs.ARPA | University of Warwick | |BITNET: steve%uk.ac.warwick.maths@UK.AC | Coventry | | | CV4 7AL | |PHONE: +44 203 523523 x2657 | ENGLAND | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H. L. Menken