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From: jrs2p@bellman.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jonathan R. Senning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Need xt_wini.c for WX-GEN (WX2) W.D. controller
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Date: 4 Aug 89 21:58:59 GMT
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I am having a problem using MINIX 1.2 with my Segate ST225 and Western
Digital WX-GEN controller.  I have the updated xt_wini.c for v1.2 with
the Western Digital patches.  The low-level format in the ROM says the
following:
 
WX2 Format Revision 7.0 (c) Copyright Western Digital Corp. 1985
 
which makes me think it should work.  However, when I try the dd command
suggested in USER_GUIDE (a.k.a. READ_ME) I get the error
 
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/0, block 34
dd: read error
68+0 records in
68+0 records out
 
If I make a file system that is smaller than 30 blocks, it works fine.
 
Does anyone else have a similar controller and a working version of
xt_wini.c that they could mail me?  I am using an AT&T 6300 on which MINIX
works fine except for this hard disk problem.  I am also upgrading to
v1.3d, but have yet tried it on my disk (it is very difficult to upgrade
without a hard disk.
 
Thanks very much to anyone who can help!!!
 
                                           Jonathan,
                                           jrs2p@virginia.edu
                                           jrs2p@amsun.apma.virginia.edu