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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
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Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution
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Date: 12 Oct 90 11:59:48 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.074457@wjg.enet.dec.com>, guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W.
John Guineau) writes:
|> From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
|> Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
|> Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution
|> Reply-To: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
|> 
|> I've had the same problems as others with AmigaMINIX.
|> 
|> The boot floppy was easy enought to fix.
|> 
|> Now I have a 'corrupted' /usr floppy, system binaries #2 and my c compiler 
|> disk got hosed the first time I tried to recompile something and write it
|> to the C compiler disk. 
|> 
|> Since my /usr disk has been bad since day 1, I am unable to access things
like
|> diskcopy, mkfs, fsck etc.
|> 
|> transfer is real sensitive, and can't read some floppies I write under 
|> AmigaDOS. I find I need to format a floppy every time I want to transfer 
|> from AmigaDOS to Minix.
|> 
|> Someone sent a copy of fsck to me so I could transfer it to minix and 
|> try to repair the /usr filesystem. I (finally) got it to transfer only to
|> find that transfer on minix creates a file with NO execute permission
|> and chmod is on the corrupted /usr disk...
|> 
|> can you say 'frustration' ? :-)
|> 
|> --
|> W. John Guineau   			guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
|> Digital Equipment Corporation
|> Marlboro MA. 01752
|> 

Forgot to add my configuration:

Amiga 2500/30 (28mhz Imtronics 68030/882) 
4 meg 32 bit ram, 1 meg chip (the new fat agnus)
GVP hardcard w/200 MB Conner Peripherals scsi disk
2 internal floppies

I pull the Imtronics 030 and usually the GVP when booting Minix.


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W. John Guineau   			guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
Marlboro MA. 01752