Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!kentd From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: MINIX ST: Hard disk info needed... Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 10:40:59 GMT Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM Reply-To: Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.com Distribution: comp Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 42 If anyone has any info on this stuff, please respond via Email or by posting... I really need all the info I can get. Well, I finally upgraded my HD so that I could get some space for Minix. So now my MegaFile 30 is a MegaFile 120 :^) Unfortunately I'm confused how to make TOS and Minix work together, here's my setup: 2.5Mb ST Minix ST 1.1 Minix 1.1 -> 1.5.10 upgrade kit on floppies. 120Mb Megafile HD with divided into 8 15Mb partitions. The thing that's confusing me is that it appears the /dev/hd* HD drivers seem to assume an HD with a total of four partitions... Is it safe to use, say, /dev/hd4 to drive partition F (4th out of 8) as a Minix FS with my current setup? I don't want to destroy my TOS partitions when setting up my Minix HD... Ideally, I'd like to make the 7th and 8th partitions Minix FS's... The section in the manual on HD drivers doesn't give me any idea if modifying the current HD drivers to support higher partition numbers is an approachable task. If it turns out I can't use the current HD driver, I'm kind of in a catch 22- I want(need?) Minix installed on my HD before I do any serious development/upgrades but I need to hack the HD device driver before I can get it installed... Any help on this would be appreciated greatly... I'm excited about getting serious with Minix! -- /**************************************************************************/ /* Kent Dalton * EMail: Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.COM */ /* NCR Microelectronics * CIS: 72320,3306 */ /* 2001 Danfield Ct. MS470A * */ /* Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 * (303) 223-5100 X-319 */ /**************************************************************************/ Fortune: A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald