Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MiNT 0.7 bug (and fix)
Message-ID: <8090.276c25c0@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 90 06:56:15 GMT
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There's a serious bug in MiNT 0.7. The code that attempts to recognize
Minix partitions can fail on some AHDI formatted drives (ones with >1
logical partition in a physical partition); as a result of this failure,
MiNT crashes.

There is a simple "fix" for those of you who encounter this problem and
have the source code: in the file mint.h, comment out the line that
says:
#define MINIX_FS
and recompile.

If you don't have the source code/can't compile it, a "fixed" binary
is included in the file mint071b.zoo which I've uploaded to atari.archive.
Two versions of the program are included: the one identified as MiNT
version 0.7.1 is the binary without Minix filesystem support, which should
work on all drives; the older MiNT version 0.7 is included for those of
you with Minix who don't use AHDI. Read the "readme.1st" file in the
archive for more detailed information.

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Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ersmith@uwovax.bitnet
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638