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From: nick@nswitgould.OZ (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: HELP! Minix on Hard Drive
Message-ID: <7278@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: 25 Mar 88 08:26:53 GMT
References: <271@aplcen.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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in article <271@aplcen.UUCP>, kenf@aplcen.UUCP (7784) says:
> I am trying to get Minix running on my hard disk drive.
> It seems to run fine with floppies, but its a pain with only
> one floppy drive.  I am using a Seagate st-251 (42 meg,
> 6 heads, 820 cylinders) and a western digital WD1002A
> WX1 controller.  The copy of xt_wini.c that I have seems
> to be for the WX2 controller,and I'm not sure what the differences
> are, ore where I should modify the code.

	Tell us what the errors are. I have a drive of identical capacity,
except it is a miniscribe. You need to change fdisks NHEADS to 6, the
"sectors per track" count in fsck to 17*6, but I don't think the driver
itself needs changing. Also I reversed the order of the overlap checks in
fdisk, is this right (dos partition is still shown as #4).

	On another note, fsck gives terrible errors when I tried (once) to
check the hdd partition 1. Does the 1.2 fsck have problems with hdds? It
works ok on floppy.



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