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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Install
Keywords: MINIX 1.1
Message-ID: <15544@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 21:17:31 GMT
References: <181@hal.CSS.GOV>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <181@hal.CSS.GOV> baugh@hal.css.gov writes:
>  [ about problems mkfs'ing on his disk partitioned with 3.3 fdisk ]

I had trouble like you describe until I switched back to 3.10.  
I was seeing weird stuff like:

	Low-level format the drive.
	Create a small DOS partition with 3.3 fdisk.
	Create three more non-DOS partitions with Minix fdisk (1.3).
	Go back to DOS, run fdisk and it hangs!  Reset the machine!

I'd like to run 3.3 at some point, but it's not causing me a lot
of grief right now.  If anybody knows how the partition table
changed between DOS revs 3.10 and 3.30, please post!

The only trouble I have with my hard disk now is that I must touch
the disk with the boot-menu fsck before it is usable under Minix.
(I have a DTC RLL controller.)

Paul Allen


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