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From: ma891424@lux.sait.edu.au (Turbo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix and Miniscribe harddrives
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:07:51 GMT
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Has anyone had any experience porting Minix 1.3 to a standard XT with a
Miniscribe 3650 (40Mb) hard disk, and a WX3 Western Digital Controller?

I have tried both with and without the auto_configure option of the
xt_wini.c kernel file to no avail. When I do

mkfs /dev/hd2 <number>

it fails badly. It claims put_block (or similar) couldn't write, and then
gives a whole lot of errors to do with device 3/2 (which makes sense).

This is causing me great headaches, and I would appreciate if someone
knows of a remedy (not of the headaches, but the disk!)

- Dave.
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