Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: The HD strikes again! Message-ID: <2513@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-May-87 20:45:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2513 Posted: Sat May 16 20:45:54 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 04:39:32 EDT Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 38 Well, my replacement floppy drive finally arrived, and I've spent all after- noon recompiling MINIX with the new xt_wini.c. Summary: Well, almost. MINIX will now mkfs /dev/hd2 without errors. (/dev/hd1 is my MS-DOS partition and I have to leave it there.) /dev/hd3 gets an error and quits; /dev/hd4 gets a whole slew of errors -- and sounds as if it's ramming the drive head against the stop. I configured all partitions as "DOS (1) Bootable" under the EDPART.EXE program; changing this did not help. I also can't assemble the program to do this under MS-DOS, because while I have MASM, it's version 1.25 which is too buggy to do much of anything. Partition information: Drive: ST225, Controller: WD1002-WX2 without autoconfig 17 sectors/track, 4 heads, 611 cylinders (512 bytes/sector) Partition 1: cylinders 000-150, 10267 sectors (DOS, bootable) Partition 2: cylinders 151-301, 10268 sectors, 5134 blocks Partition 3: cylinders 302-452, 10268 sectors, 5134 blocks Partition 4: cylinders 453-609, 10676 sectors, 5338 blocks (cylinder 610 is reserved for head parking) I am at a loss for this. Presumably the driver works, I know the drive is working right (I reformatted before doing this); has anyone used EDPART.EXE yet? Is it perhaps broken? I really only need 3 partitions (DOS, MINIX boot, /usr -- and the sources will be in /usr/src). Thanks in advance for any hints, ++Brando -- Copyright (C) 1987 Brandon S. Allbery. Redistribution permitted only if the redistributor permits further redistribution. ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc ---- Brandon S. Allbery {decvax,cbatt,cbosgd}!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery Tridelta Industries {ames,mit-eddie,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 7350 Corporate Blvd. necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU Mentor, OH 44060 +01 216 255 1080 (also eddie.MIT.EDU)