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From: SQ79%liverpool.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Problems with extra 8 partitions
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Date: 1 Sep 89 13:01:36 GMT
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   I've compiled the new ST-MINIX kernel etc., with all of the HAVEs on and
with #define SUPRA_PART 1 in stwini.c. Unfortunately, I can only access the
first 4 partitions the extra 8 don't work!
   I can do a  mkfs on /dev/hd8, but I can't mount it. (At the mo. I'm running
on /dev/hd3, but I'd like to use the extra partitions.)
   I know there's something there as I the mkfs works on /dev/hd8, whereas a
mkfs on /dev/hd8 with the original PH kernel, wouldn't. A od -hx of /dev/hd8 or
/dev/hd9 just gives a list of about 20 unrecoverable disk errors then returns
with the prompt!
   The extra partitions are there as TOS could access them just after I
re-formatted the disk. I've looked at /dev/hd0 and all the info. there seems
okay, according to the structure in kernel/sthdc.h!!!
   Any ideas anyone? Has anyone actually got 12 partitions working.

Mark Powell

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