steve@warwick.UUCP (03/10/87)
Just a note qualifying Lindsay's claim that it works on an Amstrad PC. Well, not quite. The hard disk doesn't seem to work. I can't write to it at all: mkfs, dd, etc. all fail with an "unrecoverable disk error". These errors all start with block 1, then 2, then 3, ... The drive light does come on, so minix is obviously saying something the controller understands. Does anyone have any idea what sort of controller hardaware is in the Amstrad PC? Xebec? Western Digital? (I know, open 'er up and look. It's not my machine, and the owner is a bit cautious about that sort of thing. This (the fact that it is not mine) also explains why I have not technical documentation for the beast). Could the problem be that the disk (a 20MB one, for the record) has some bad blocks right at the beginning that are getting in the way, and that re-formatting it (with a real formatter, not the standard MesSDOS one) will make the problem go away? The disk seems to work fine on MesSDOS, tho', so maybe not. Ideas, anybody? 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