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From: james@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Message-ID: <322@pembina.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 06:30:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: pembina.322
Posted: Wed May  6 06:30:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 09:10:48 EDT
References: <1569@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: james@pembina.UUCP (James Borynec)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Lines: 20
Keywords: Bad sectors

In article <1569@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> zimmer@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
>I am having problems using the hard disk of an IBM XT (genuine) with Minix.
>After creating a Minix partition following the instruction included
>with the disks, I try to copy the /usr file system to the hard disk.
>This results in one of two things happening:
...
I am having similar problems with my AT no-name clone.  It may be
something with the file system.  When I copy a file over, it is fine
 (as determined by the CMP command).  later, when I copy over another
file, one of my earlier files may get trounced (usually only partially).
This also happens when I use the DD commands.  It gets really frustrating
as it seems to be somewhat deterministic - no matter what I try I can't
port over all of the files I need to make the C compiler work.
(This is happening on my Hard disk partition 2, the Dos partition
seems to work just fine)  

I do not believe that bad sectors are causing the problem.
james@alberta
PS. If anyone is interested, I will post a short program to read the
AT real time clock - useful for setting the date.