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From: kyber!minixug!waltje@relay.eu.net
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Subject: MINIX (1.5.X) on ST-11R with Seagate ST238R
Message-ID: <18365@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 3 May 90 05:07:53 GMT
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Does anyone know how I should get MINIX running on a 10MHz
XT clone (with NEC V20) that has a Seagate ST-11R RLL win-
chester controller and a Seagate ST238R 32Mb RLL disk?

It runs fine using the BIOS drive (of course it does...),
but that is rather slow, and the serial driver loses lots
of data.

I tried using the xt_wini driver with the NR_SECTORS set
to 0x1A (RLL has 26 sectors/track), and that results in a
rather "firm" reset of the disk (seems to be OK).

A second later, the kernel panics because it can't read the
partition table of winchester 0...

Pointers to solutions (please, send them by e-mail; my news
feed is rather slow (if present at all!)) would be appreciated!

Fred van Kempen
MINIX User Group Holland

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