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From: st12a@menudo.uh.edu (richard henderson~)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.5 PC floppy problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.234656.1193@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 23:46:56 GMT
Sender: st12a@menudo.uh.edu (richard henderson~)
Organization: University of Houston
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I just bought PC MINIX 1.5.  All excited, I booted up the AT disk,
and lo and behold, immediately after the "Booting Minix" message, the
boot program complains about a disk read error.  So, I try the PC boot
disk.  Same thing.  And for the Universal Boot disk.  Aghast, I try
the disk on my old XT.  It works.

Obviously, there is some sort of compatability problem with the AT
floppy drive.  However, as far as I know, it is completely hardware
compatable.  Things that access the hardware directly, like PCTOOLS'
backup program work fine.

System configuration: Standard Computer 386 w/4 meg ram, 1.2 and 1.44
floppies, and a 100 meg HD.

Any sugestions?

richard~
richard@stat.tamu.edu
st12a@menudo.uh.edu