Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!pa.dec.com!rust.zso.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!wjg.enet.dec.com!guineau From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Some initial impressions of Amiga MINIX Message-ID: <19757@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 3 Feb 91 15:28:28 GMT References: Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA Lines: 28 > My efforts to join the ranks of Amiga Minix users have not been > easy, I'm afraid. I can greatly sympothize (sp?) with you about the perils of Amiga Minix. However I do have great faith in Steve Reiz and co. that they are hard at work making AMinix work reliably. Steve has already posted a hard disk driver for the commodore controllers. Pentice Hall is another story... I'm still hoping someone will get the time to do 680x0 support. I've tried but the floppy reliability problems in the original and first patched versions of Minix make it immpossible for me to do *anything*. I couldn't even get the test suite to compile without read/write errors trashing my floppies. Maybe the recent stuff Steve posted will work better... The only comfort I can give you is around diskette formatting. Minix File systems require IBM format on the media. You need to format the floppys on a PC in 720K format first (or use MSH on the Amiga - works great). The transfer utility is for moving files between AmigaDOS and Minix. You must use the Amiga side to format floppies (transfer -f). Moving only one file is not so bad if you use tar to pack a few together. -- W. John Guineau grep meaning life | more Digital Equipment Corporation guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com or wjg@wpi.wpi.edu