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From: jco@mtuni.ATT.COM (J.OMALLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX on partitioned hard disk
Message-ID: <299@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 14:51:22 EST
Article-I.D.: mtuni.299
Posted: Thu Oct 22 14:51:22 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 10:23:08 EST
Reply-To: jco@mtuni.UUCP (J.OMALLEY)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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I also have hard disk problems.  I have an AT&T PC 6300 with
a DTC controller and a 10 MB Seagate drive.  I acquired a
driver for the hard disk, recompiled the kernel, etc.,
formatted the hard disk and made a file system of the whole
10 MB on /dev/hd0.  After succeeding with this, I would really
prefer to have a DOS partition in the first 100 cylinders of
the disk, and the remaining 205 cylinders for MINIX.  I
partitioned and reformatted the hard disk accordingly.
I then tried to do a mkfs on /dev/hd2 for 6970 blocks.
mkfs failed stating put_block couldn't write, reporting
unrecoverable disk errors on block 6969 (the last block)
and blocks 0 -15.
I have tried reducing the size of the file system to no avail.
I tried creating a proto file and got the message "file system
too large for minor device", or words to that effect.

What is the way out of this bind???  

Jan O'Malley (AT&T, Room 2E-329, 200 Laurel Ave., Middletown, NJ 07748)

Please send email to
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or call me at 201-957-2724.