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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Western Digital hard disk controller problems
Message-ID: <2561@felix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 22:42:27 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.2561
Posted: Wed Apr  8 22:42:27 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Apr-87 05:38:16 EST
Reply-To: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Distribution: world
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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Like others have said in previous postings, I have a disk
controller card which doesn't work with Minix.  It is an
off-brand hard disk controller with a Western Digital chip
and mkfs either says "unrecoverable error" or the entire
system locks up.  I cannot even "od /dev/hd0".  Sigh....

My configuration is a Zenith Z151 with a V20 in it and this
funky disk controller card with a Seagate ST225 drive.  The
disk subsystem has been running just fine under MS-DOS
v2.25 and v3.1 for almost a year and a half.  I suspect
Minix is having interrupt troubles or maybe initialization
troubles or some such.  But with just one floppy disk, I
cannot reasonably recompile the kernel to put debugging
messages in and track the problem.

If anyone has *any* clues, please post them.  I'm on the
verge of buying a new disk controller card.  (Have you ever
tried to buy a card withOUT a drive?  It's tough!)  And in
case I do need to buy a new controller card, what brands of
cards have been proven to work in an XT clone?  And do you
want to buy a slightly used hard disk controller?  Cheap?
						    :-(
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	-- Art Zemon
	   FileNet Corporation
	   Costa Mesa, California
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