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From: jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX File Systems and other questions
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Date: 10 Dec 90 22:12:24 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.123052@wjg.enet.dec.com> guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com writes:


>I format floppies using MSH (also tried a real PC) and then type 
>	mkfs /dev/dd0 360
>and/or	mkfs /dev/dd0 720
>
>Both commands succeed, but then a mount /dev/dd0 /user will return
>an error of "not a valid file system"
>
>What am I doing wrong?  

I have also experienced considerable difficulty with the mkfs
command on my B2000.  Sometimes it behaves as you describe, and
sometimes it reports various disk errors, either while running mkfs
or on the attempted mount after mkfs.  Curiously, it does succeed
occasionally.  On my daughter's 500, it works properly most of the
time, and the disks thus prepared will then mount OK on the 2000.
Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour?  Does anyone know what
is going on, or have a fix?  Also, I was wondering if anyone had
gotten Amiga MINIX working with a 68020 or 68030.  I have an A2620
card with 2 megs of 32-bit RAM which I can't use with MINIX!


>--                			
>W. John Guineau                         grep meaning life | more
>Digital Equipment Corporation		
>guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com   or   wjg@wpi.wpi.edu


   John Wright	Chemistry, B-014, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093
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