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From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Michael Gass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX HD drivers - XEBEC controller/Seagate 225
Message-ID: <187@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:49:29 EST
Article-I.D.: dalcsug.187
Posted: Wed Nov 11 19:49:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 03:30:38 EST
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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Please excuse me if this is a request which has been gone over and over in
this newsgroup, as I am a new reader of this group...

The standard minix hard disk driver, xt_wini.c works partially on my Seagate
225 hard disk, with XEBEC controller.  However, when writing to the hard
disk anthing over a few kilobytes long, I get short 'whirrrr', and the system
hangs.  All reads seem to work fine.

Would anyone have a modified driver to work with the Segate/Xebec combination?

I believe part of the program comes from the ECC (error correction)--on all
hard disk utilities which perform an ECC test, my hard disk fails.  It has
done this from the start, so I assume my HD doesn't posess this circuitry.
Things work perfectlyh with MS-DOS.



As well, what is involved in getting a dial-in line working with MINIX?  Has
someone came up with getty-type software and Hayes modem drivers to allow this?

Is there somewhere I can obtain a summary of the changes (bug fixes, etc.) which
have been posted in this group?  How is the latest version of MINIX different
from version 1.1?

again, excuse me, as I realise most of these question must have come up
before...

dalegass@dalcsug.uucp