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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix vs. WD1002A-WX1
Message-ID: <13@winfree.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 23:10:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 23:10:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 13:36:57 EST
Reply-To: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
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I have a 4.77Mhz PC clone that I am trying to bring Minix up on.  The hardware
includes 640k RAM, one 40trk floppy drive, a WD1002A-WX1 hard disk controller
and a Rodime 204 20meg full-height drive.  Dos can be made to format and boot
off of this hard disk combination fine.

When I bring up Minix on floppy, and attempt to do a
	mkfs /dev/hd1 20000   (I realize this isn't all of the disk...)

the hard drive activity light comes on for a second or so, and then
Minix complains:

	Kernel panic: WIN won't reset

	Type space to reboot

at which point typing space will either result in a reboot or a hang, with
about equal frequency.

Before I got digging too deeply into the driver, I'd greatly appreciate info
from anyone who has any insight at all into what is going on here.  Mail is
preferable, I'll summarize.
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