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From: jcs@chinet.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix on my AT&T PC6300 blues.
Message-ID: <847@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 17:25:23 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.847
Posted: Sun Apr 12 17:25:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 18:53:02 EST
Organization: Chinet, Chicago Ill.
Lines: 33
Keywords: 6300 Minix WD1002S-WX2 Tulin


Well, I finally got Minix talking to my hard disk (but boy, is
it ever flakey). Here is the hardware were talking about:
AT&T PC6300, 640K
WD1002S-WX2, Tulin TL240
I think its talking now because I did a low level format with
interleave = 5, which is worst case for this combination.
I had it previously set to 6. I also have been playing around
with using the internal BIOS VS controller rom.
Currently, I have the 6300's dip switch 1, switch 3 set to internal
and the controller's rom enabled (W3 closed). This had caused a conflict
earlier when I accidently set them this way but isnt a problem now
(dont ask me why, it must be FM!).
My partition table currently looks like this:

Partition  Status  Type    Start  End  Size
     1        A     DOS        0  250   251
     2        N    non-dos   251  600   350

Hard disk I/O (mkfs, cp, etc.) fail intermittantly. I *THINK* the
problem is still related to the interleave because errors occour
in a random order although the blocks are always the same.

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  John "C". Sucilla  Chinet - Chicago, Illinois
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  John "C". Sucilla  Chinet - Chicago, Illinois
  ...ihnp4!chinet!jcs

  Don't let reality stop you.....