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From: johnc@mia.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: T1000 WD fixs
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Date: Tue, 12-May-87 14:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 14:22:00 1987
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Nf-From: mia.UUCP!johnc    May 12 14:22:00 1987




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	I am posting this fix seperatly from the tandy 1000 fixes.
It allows minix to operate with the tandy 1000 hard drives ( Western
Digital & Xebec ).  It took quite some time to find this (bug?), by
reading betweed the lines of the WD manuals.  The errors that are
seen are:
		Can't reset WINCHES.....
		Unable to read block....

	To fix wini.c delete lines 550 thru 554.

	The wd controlers don't seem to drop the REQ flag after all 6
bytes of the command have been sent.  Western Digital seems to say it
will only be droped when a byte is needed, not when it dosent want any
more data.
	I have been using this fix for a months and have had no problems
at all.  Please try this fix and let me know if it solves the hard drive
problems on other computers.

				John Clark


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John Clark - System Administrator, Super-User
Tandy Business Products Service Center
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Coopercity, Fl 33328
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