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From: joerg@mwtech.UUCP (Joerg Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Reading TOS files from a hard disk in Minix.
Summary: Suggestion for Commonly Asked Questions
Message-ID: <1172@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:35:03 GMT
References: <56217@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <7777630@zebedee%tharr.uucp>
Reply-To: joerg@mwtech.UUCP (Joerg Werner)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <7777630@zebedee%tharr.uucp> geoffc.zebedee@tharr.uucp writes:
<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 ?

A 5 MB partition has a smaller FAT than a 14 MB partiton.
Solution: chmen the tos program (see above) so it can read the whole FAT.


Is it possible to put this question (and the answer :-) in the
`Commonly Asked Questions List' ?
I think many new users have this problem.

Ciao, Joerg
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Joerg Werner, email: joerg@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-37 33 66