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From: klock@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Kent J. Lockhart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: FDISK 3.3 Extended DOS Partition for Creating a Minix Partition
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Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 14:30:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 14:30:08 1987
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I've been trying to create a partition on my 30 meg RLL disk drive for
use with MINIX -- so far without success.  Using DOS 3.3 FDISK I was
able to create an Extended DOS partition (partition #1) ... I already
had a Primary DOS partition (partition #2) for use with DOS.  My computer
is an IBM PC (PC-2) with a Western Digital RLL controller and an ST238
winchester drive.

When i attempt to run MINIX 1.1 mkfs using the /etc/hd1 driver the following
messages were displayed:

  Winchester task got message from -1 Unrecoverable disk error on 3/1, bloc
  Hard disk won't reset

The first error message was displayed multiple times before mkfs gave up
and returned to the # prompt.

I would like to solicit suggestions from anyone who has had this problem.
(Or anyone else for that matter).

Is it possible that the Extended DOS partition is not properly formatted
such that mkfs does not see a properly prepared disk?  Or, perhaps is it
possible that i need a Western Digital as mentioned below?


In article <1201@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>On the same subject, I would like to include the western digital disk driver
>in the next release as well.  There was a lot of discussion about it earlier,
>and I sort of lost track of it, but since the discussion died down, I presume
>a working driver eventually became available.  Will someone who has the
>driver and followed the discussion well enough to know that they have the
>most recent version send me mail.  Then I will ask one of the people replying
>to send me the driver.  (Such a request may generate a lot of transatlantic
>mail, but at least it will be short mail.)

 - Kent Lockhart