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From: michael@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: AmigaMINIX hard disk support: status?
Message-ID: <200@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 22 May 91 08:46:03 GMT
Organization: Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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I currently own the PH 1.5.10 relase of AmigaMINIX and am using the
kernel from ftp.cs.vu.nl with hard-disk support. This works fine as long
as I use the standard kernel. This is not what I bought minix for! I
have full access to the net (I know good for me :-) ) and would like to
apply some (or alot) of the patches availible. Currently I'm using gcc
1.39 and gas 1.37 from plains to compile programs and this works fine.

But to recompile the kernel I need the sources for a hard disk driver
(at least if I don't want to leave 100Mb unused and switch back to
floppy's) and I think there are a lot of other people in the AmigaMINIX
community who would like to have them to. I have an A590 with internal
XT-drive and external scsi-drive.

My question to the net:
	Does anyone have a working hard disk driver for
	AmigaMINIX with sources that can be freely distributed
	(or if they cannot a beta-version will do) I would really
	like to be able to recompile my kernel with gcc and be
	able to apply some patches.

One more thing; I head something about recompiling with gcc and the
problems that can occour doing so. I have succesfully compiled the
vanilla 1.5.10 from PH (I rewrote the .s file from Motorola to MIT
standard) but it didn't work. I applied the patches to the include files
I found on plains, and I used gcc-ld instead of ld and cv to make .mix
files. The kernel build was successful as wel but when I booted the
newly built kernel the following message was presented to me:

Booting minix 1.5.10 [and so on]
[usual info]

read error from major device 2 minior 8 [or whatever /dev/dd0 points to]
KERNEL PANIC!
press reset button

What did I do wrong (or forget)? Does it have something to do with stack
allocation for kernel procs or should I patch some code. Does anyone
have any info on how to recompile the kernel on the Amiga (or ST) using
gcc? If so please send it to me or tell me where I can get it.


Thanks inadvance,
-- 
                                        Michael Brouwer

P.S. Any opinions expressed above are not my own, but my vt100's