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From: sunil@unix386.Convergent.COM (Sunil Bopardikar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Need hard disk help
Message-ID: <6290@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 19:29:29 GMT
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I have Minix 1.3 running on an Altos 500 (AT clone) with 2 floppy drives.
The trouble is that I have been unsuccessful in using the hard disk which has
an ST506 RLL controller, which is supposed to be wichester compatible.
Minix 1.3 comes with two hard disk drivers, at_wini.c and xt_wini.c.
When I make the "kernel" file with either of them it is smaller than the
"kernel" which is distributed. Also the kernel with xt_wini.c boots up fine
but the kernel made with at_wini.c refuses to even boot. It gives a message
saying something like "Error in booting. Trying to reboot".
Ofcourse with the default Minix or the Minix I construct with xt_wini.c for
wini.c , I cannot access the hard disk. ie. if I say
dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/null count=1000
it gives me a read error. 

Has anyone come across something similar? I would appreciate your help if
you have.

-sunil