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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix runs on Faraday motherboard
Message-ID: <370@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 18:38:01 EST
Article-I.D.: bms-at.370
Posted: Fri Apr 10 18:38:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 19:28:13 EST
References: <406@netxcom.UUCP>
Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 27
Keywords: clone Toshiba minix
Summary: Minix runs on Toshiba 1100+

I have MINIX fired up on my T1100+!  To run with 720K diskettes, you need to
patch the first entry in the nr_blocks array in floppy.c to 1440 instead
of 720.  I used Norton utilities to find and patch that word.  It is in 
sector 95 of the boot diskette.  Debug will work if you don't have Norton.
You should change the source also so that you aren't surprised later.

I used CopyIIPC with Snatchit to convert the 8 distribution 5 1/4" floppies
to diskette image files.  PKARC crunches these into the 600K archive mentioned
in a previous article.

In article <406@netxcom.UUCP>, jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen) writes:

> There is some strange behavior on my clone EGA board though.  Sure,
> 		. . . 
> happens is that after 50 or 75 lines have been displayed, the next
> 15 or so aren't painted -- I see the cursor move, but no characters
> are displayed.  Then after about 15 of these "ghost" lines, the
> display begins to paint again, and "as if by magic" the ghost lines
> appear on the display.

> Has anyone else seen this, or is it just me?

This happens on the toshiba LCD display also.  In fact, it even happens
on my true blue IBM XT, but only rarely.  There seems to be a tricky bug
in the display driver.
-- 
Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>