Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!unocss!mlewis From: mlewis@unocss..unl.edu (mlewis) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: minix problems Keywords: mkfs/fsck Message-ID: <907@unocss..unl.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 03:11:08 GMT Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha Lines: 49 Hi folx, I'm posting the following for a friend who can't seem to get postnews to do what he asks. Any Email responses should be directed to him although I can forward messages, of course. His username is wilhite, on this machine. Responses to other than this machine I will have to forward, as he doesn't have an account on the Vax. Thanks a bunch. [begin forwarded message] From wilhite Wed Dec 6 14:50:47 1989 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 14:50:42 cst From: wilhite (timothy r. wilhite) To: mlewis Status: R marcus: enclosed is a brief description of the problem i'm encountering. btw, i think i will utilize this machine for communication with you versus calling at work; i think you are extremely busy to be dealing with these types of problems. anyway, back to the problem: o using mkfs under minix (#mkfs /dev/at0 1200) works fine without any problems. o checking the above disk from the boot menu gives me the following: - error0x401 writing block 4, retry - error0x401 writing block 4, retry - error0x401 writing block 4, retry - fsck can't write block 4(error=0x401) o i get the above nonsense with a dos formatted 1.2 meg disk. here, i'm trying to create a empty file system. o i use the defaults that it is giving me. i encountered this problem while under minix trying to get a copy of sed. i'm frustrated as to what in the world is going on. i'm to the point of going back to os9. at least i know what i'm doing. thxs for the post. -tim -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Na khuya mne ehto gavno? | Internet: cs057@zeus.unl.edu preferred machine->| UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!mlewis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------