Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!ukma!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!ucsd!chem.ucsd.edu!jmw From: jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX Message-ID: <1176@chem.ucsd.EDU> Date: 22 May 91 01:22:48 GMT References: <906@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <21747@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May21.172327.11881@watson.ibm.com> Sender: news@chem.ucsd.edu Reply-To: jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright) Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego Lines: 49 In article <1991May21.172327.11881@watson.ibm.com> sck@biko.watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes: >In article <21747@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: >|> >|> Some people at cs.vu.nl have A590/A2091 drivers running and available >|> -- > Which people have these? I really want to use MINIX on my 2500 and I have >the 2091. Where is the software found? Who has it? >-- To answer your question, I am posting the following from comp.os.minix (I suggest you check out comp.os.minix if you are interested in minix; much lower volume than the various ami groups, so not difficult! For some reason, almost no amiga minix material gets posted to comp.unix.amiga. The amiga minix has come a long way since it appeared; it runs on 68020/68030 systems, supports at least one hard drive interface (the A590/A2091), and the filesystem on floppys is stable (none of these were true of the original release!, at least on 2000's!) ]From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz) ]Newsgroups: comp.os.minix ]Subject: Re: WHAT AMIGA HARD DRIVES ARE SUPPORTED UNDER MINIX!!!??? ]Date: 27 Mar 91 12:45:46 GMT ]jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes: ]]Well.. I hear that there is no *OFFICIAL* HD support for ]]Minix, and the only thing keeping me from buying it ]]is a HD patch for my Trumpcard... ]]Is it supported? If not, what *ARE*?? ]Eh, nope. The Commodore A590, with SCSI and/or XT disks connected, is ]supported. The Commodore A2091 hd controller and the A3000's harddisk ]may be supported as well. I'm saying it that careful because I'm not ](yet) sure how well our most recent version of minix works with those ]controllers. ] Steven ]PS. Our most recent version can be ftp-ed from ftp.cs.vu.nl [130.37.24.6], ]directory /pub/sreiz/minix. This is a beta version, and does not yet include diffs for the source code, but Reiz and company are reported to be working hard to whip it into shape for full release. I have a trumpcard, not a 2091, so I can't address how the hard drive support works, but it runs fine on my B2000 with A2620 board. John Wright Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0314 jmw@chem.ucsd.edu jwright@ucsd (619) 534-3049