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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Major hard disk problems (V 1.2).
Message-ID: <156@winfree.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 13:50:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: winfree.156
Posted: Tue Oct 20 13:50:06 1987
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In article <259@nikhefk.UUCP> werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels) writes:
>I'm  having  major  problems  with  my  hard  disk  (DTC   5150CX
>controller, Seagate 10MB drive) running MINIX 1.2.

My setup is a DTC5287 AT-RLL controller with floppy, and a Rodime 204.

>Now the problems start. After I rebooted I ran fsck on  the  hard
>disk  from  the  bootmenu  : all the filesystems were reported as
>having a bad magic number in the superblock  and  thus  fail  any
>further  check. 

My experiences closely duplicate yours.

>Is there anybody who can give me some help with these problems. I
>would like to be able to boot from the hard (as described by ast)
>and build a new boot floppy without loosing my hard disk (are the
>tools/binaries different from the startup binaries ?).

I have just moved to a new house, and so have had my AT/Minix setup
shut down for some time.  High on the list of priorities in the next
couple of weeks is to bring Minix up on the AT, and make all the bits 
behave... I'd be pleased to hear anything you find wrong, and will
post here anything that I can figure out...
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