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From: geoffc@zebedee%tharr.uucp (Geoffrey Coan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Reading TOS files from a hard disk in Minix.
Message-ID: <7777630@zebedee%tharr.uucp>
Date: 16 Jun 91 22:59:54 GMT
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In article <56217@nigel.ee.udel.edu> breure%itihp2@pucc.princeton.edu
(Frank Breure) writes:
> > 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).
> 
I have a related problem with tosread, it will read my 1st hard disk
partition but not the rest !  My setup is:

partition 1 - 5Mb TOS C: directory
partition 2 - 1Mb Minix root directory
partition 3 - 14Mb Minix /usr directory
partition 4 - 16Mb TOS D: directory
partition 5 - 12Mb TOS E: directory
partition 6 - 16Mb TOS F: directory

this is formatted with the ICD utilities.  I can understand minix not being
able to understand the ICD extended partition structures (ie: partitions 5 & 6)
but I would expect that I could access partition 4 (/dev/hd4) but it doesnt
work - I can only access /dev/hd1 - any ideas ?

While I'm on the subject, how can I get Minix to read the date & time from the
ICD clock (SCSI address 7), the supplied icdtime (or whatever it is called) 
doesnt work.

AdvThanks,

Geoffrey
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