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 Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: The HD strikes again! Message-ID: <2517@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-May-87 19:00:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2517 Posted: Sun May 17 19:00:17 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 04:40:59 EDT References: <2513@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 28 As quoted from <2513@ncoast.UUCP> by allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery): +--------------- | 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 +--------------- More info: I cut it down to the MS-DOS partition (150 sectors) and a Minix partition, using a different program (DOS 3.1 FDISK; the Minix partition was created as a "second MS-DOS partition"). This will mkfs to 5304 blocks, but anything higher fails. MS-DOS successfully formats the entire disk, both low-level and DOS FORMAT. This is using the latest version of the xt_wini.c patches (the last two differed only in the existence of autoconfig patches in one of them, I do not have an autoconfig ROM). I am totally bewildered, since everyone else seems to be having success with the WD1002-WX2 and these patches. ++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)