Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix on Compaq Portable II
Message-ID: <1827@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Jan 88 14:16:20 GMT
References: <951@louie.udel.EDU> <1823@botter.cs.vu.nl> <10096@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
Lines: 12
Keywords: Hardcard 20

In article <10096@ut-sally.UUCP> eholley@rodan.UUCP (Ed Holley) writes:
>
>I have been running minix on my hardcard 20 in a compaq portable for several
>months now with no trouble whatsoever, and no modifications.  That bit about
>Minix not working with this hard disk must just be a nasty rumor.

The very first MINIX user outside Amsterdam (in Utah) tried it on a Model D
with a hardcard and concluded that it didn't work with the hardcard.  When
the hardcard was removed, it worked perfectly.  On the other hand, that was
V1.1.  Maybe 1.2 is better.  

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)