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From: michael@sunham.germany.sun.com (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix-ST: disk errors (>720kb?)
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Date: 29 Aug 90 08:16:16 GMT
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Hello everybody out there!

I own Minix 1.1 for the Atrai ST for over a year now. In the first months,
I didn't had enough memory to do more than "ls, cat" etc. Now that I have
this memory (2.5 meg), I started doing more.
Because I do not (yet) have a hard disk, I made a root-disk containing
the compiler (ack) and most of the bin's. On my Atari (and on all the
other Ataris too) a floppy can be formatted with more than 720kB. I myself
made it 810 kB. When I use a 810 kB formatted Disk and put a 1200kB File-
system on it (with the -t "option"), I considered two Problems:
1) Loading the Ramdisk is very slowly (2 or 3 cups of coffee!)
2) When the Disk contains more than 720kB (remember: 810 is max), loading
   stops at 720kB and a nice "panic: disk4" appears on the right side of
   the screen. Perhaps there is more text, but my screen ends here!
   on the next line I read "push RESET button".
Does anybody had this problem anytime before?
Any suggestions? (except "buy a better computer...")


Have a nice day!
                  Michael.
PS. As you probably have already noticed, I'm not a native-english. I`m a
    student in good old germany, but not an english-student!