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From: breure%itihp2@pucc.princeton.edu (Frank Breure)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Reading TOS files from a hard disk in Minix.
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Date: 13 Jun 91 12:50:13 GMT
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> Hi,
>
> Is there anybody out, who also has problems with reading or writing
> from a tos hard disk partition in minix, using the 'tos -r' or 'tos -d'
> utitility???????
>
> When I read a file or ask for a directory on a tos disk in drive
> a or b (/dev/dd0 /dev/dd1),  then there is no problem in reading this.
> However when i do the same on a hard disk partition , for example
> /dev/hd0 /dev/hd1 then I get a 'memory fault - core dumped'.
>
> Can it be that no hard disks are supported by the tos utitily, or
> is there a fix for this problem.

I have chmem'ed tos to about 60k and am now able to read and write
my harddisk (a megafile 60 with only /dev/hd1 as a 15Mb TOS partition).

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Geert.
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Frank Breure                                    (breure@itihp1.tno.nl)
TNO Institute of Applied Computer Science       Delft, The Netherlands
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