Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!mmdf From: tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of mkfs in Amiga Minix Message-ID: <44577@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 23:44:54 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 29 In comp.os.minix, Steven Reiz writes: > tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) writes: > >Could you make diffs/sources for the floppy driver changes ONLY > >availible? I would really like to have reliable floppy access, > >but because there are no sources included with latest_aminix.lzh > >and because of either 020/hard disk icomptatibility with my > >system, I can't use the supplied minix.img. I realize the hard > > Good point, other people have complained about it as well. We will > try to produce YANAMV (yet another new amiga minix version) ASAP, > which will let you boot minix, even if it doesn't work with your > harddisk. I think that that's better than having two versions, one > with the harddisk task, and one without. Great. Did you include Andy Michael's amiga q&d mpx.s patch for 010/020 compatibility? Also, the hard disk task should look for the first Commodore *HARD DISK CONTROLLER* board, not just the first C= board, since anyone with a C= A2620 like myself will probably get bashed because the wini task will think it's found the hard disk. You can check a board type field as well as the manufacturer field in the autoconfig list to accomplish this. Keep up the good work! ------///------------------------------------------------------------ /// Tyler "Ty" Sarna E-Mail: tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu \\\/// "So you see, the overhead gets underfoot..." --\XX/---------------------------------------------------------------