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From: vodall@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bill Vodall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution
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Date: 10 Oct 90 17:07:11 GMT
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/ hpfcso:comp.os.minix / ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) /  5:14 pm  Oct  8, 1990 /
In article <1850@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael) writes:
>If anyone trys this [copying Amiga disks on an ST or PC] 
> and either succeeds or fails, please let me know.  

Please post the results to the net.  It is now abundantly clear that
they company that did the disk production munged the boot disk.  Fortunately,
there is a backup file, minix.img.bu on it, which may save the day.  I am
not yet sure how many other disks were badly copied.  

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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Yes.  Thank you a thousand times to the person who put the minix.imp.bu on
the BOOT disk.

I received my Amiga Minix last night.  Upon making a backup of the BOOT disk
the dreaded bad track #13 showed up.  After playing with it some I was able to
copy the entire disk, except for "minix.img", into the AMIGA ram disk.  I
renamed the minix.img.bu to minix.img and built a new boot disk.  Hurray! It
works.  And this is on an A1000!

Now if only I can get the disk format program "BOOT:c/transfer" to work.  It
locks up the system whenever I run it.


Bill "finally on Minix after all these years"