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From: g-liao@gumby.WISC.EDU (Cheen Liao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: harddisk drive?
Message-ID: <1017@gumby.WISC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 10:41:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: gumby.1017
Posted: Mon Sep  7 10:41:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Sep-87 02:23:38 EDT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: harddisk drive

I am a beginner of minix. No experience have I about minix.

I just got a minix 1.1 and try to use it. It seems to run well when I run it 
with only one floppy drive. Then I tried to mkfs on the harddisk, I got error
message "Winchester wouldn't reset, drive busy,"  and the hard disk driver made
aweful noise.

The machine and harddisk I use is 
	IMS 286 running Phoenix BIOS
	Western Digital diskette/fixed disk controller
	Miniscribe 43MB (Model 6053).

I partitioned the hard disk into two partitions; I used
	mkfs /dev/hd2 2000
to make a file system on 2nd partition, then I got the error message. I doubt
it is caused by the incompatibility of disk drive.

Does any one tell me the reason why it failed and how to fixe it; to get a 
newer release? Or to modify the source code? Thanks in advance.