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From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of mkfs in Amiga Minix
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Date: 12 Feb 91 14:00:55 GMT
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peterc@softway.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb) writes:
> mkfs /dev/dd1 720
> seemed to access drive 1, then complained that it couldn't access
> sector 719.

It seems that you might benefit from the latest version of amiga minix,
which fixes some bugs in the floppy task. You can ftp it from
ftp.cs.vu.nl [130.37.24.6], directory /pub/sreiz/minix.
Please give it a try, it has helped other people who had similar problems.

> OK, thought I, I'll recompiled mkfs, and put some instrumentation in
> to see what's going on.  Needed a new empty filesystem to do this, of
>[...]
> archive, and start compiling.  No go.  Syntax errors galore.

Did you use the original Makefile?

> Also, there are several things commented out with
> #if (MACHINE == ATARI)
> that I think perhaps should include AMIGA, etc, too.

You're right, it should probably be #if (ENDIANITY == BIG) or something like
that.

> Can anyone help me?  Is there something wrong with the floppy device,
> or something?  Has mkfs never been compiled on an Amiga?

I hope so. Probably, yes. No, it hasn't. All the commands have been compiled
on an Atari ST running minix 1.5, with the original atari minix makefiles.
That should not be the problem, though.

Regards,

		Steven Reiz