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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Zenith 150 Winchester disk fix
Message-ID: <1543@encore.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 10:39:12 EST
Article-I.D.: encore.1543
Posted: Thu Apr 16 10:39:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 09:39:46 EST
References: <131@wldrdg.UUCP>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Wellesley Hills, MA
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In article <131@wldrdg.UUCP> n0ano@wldrdg.UUCP (Don Dugger) writes:
>...I discovered that I had a read-only hard disk.  

So did I.  Same symptoms as you described.  Only difference is
I'm running a Taiwan XT-clone with a mail-order hard disk
(Western Digital controller, though).

>...I came up with the following fix which seems to correct
>the problem.  

Sure does!  (Thanks) * 1E6!  You just saved me many days of
agonized device driver hackery...

(I must mention, though, that MINIX is the first system I've
used where it's actually semi-tolerable to do development on
floppies... not comfortable, mind you, but I didn't tear my
hair out either!  Still, I'm glad I got my hard disk back).

Anyhow... so as to not waste net.bandwidth with a mere thank-you
note, I thought I'd warn the net about a bug I discovered: DO NOT
use the `mv' utility to move a directory to a different place in
the directory tree!!!  I tried that, cd'ed into the directory,
did a `pwd', and got "Can't open ..".  It turns out that when
`mv' moves a directory it doesn't check to see if the `..' entry
needs to be updated.  This-all happened this morning before going
to work, so I didn't have time to look into it.  I'll check it out
and post a fix as soon as I come up with one...

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You don't honestly think ENCORE is responsible for this??!!