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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX with RLL controler.
Message-ID: <356@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 04:49:15 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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   Hello, I recently got a new HardDrive (30M RLL), and have been
working on getting MINIX going on it.  I have a friend who has an
AT with a 30M RLL, who is giving me a hand (basicly so I don't have
to try compiling off of floppies; I had to do that last time, not
fun), but using his boot disk, MINIX boots fine, works just great,
accesses the hard drive just fine (I was using od < /dev/hd? to test
that), until I go to do a mkfs, at which time it starts telling me that 
that it has all sorts of unrecoverable errors, on at least 1/10th of
the disk.  However, when I switch the partitions over to DOS extended
partitions, and reformat them, DOS thinks that the whole partitions
are just fine.  I don't know what the controller is, but the drive
is a ST238, if that helps at all  :-).

    Any help at all would be greatly appreciated,

                      S. John Banner

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