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From: hysell@kodak.UUCP (john hysell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: /dev/hd6-9
Keywords: minix hard disk minor devices
Message-ID: <1411@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 11:49:46 GMT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
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I am using MINIX 1.2 on a IBM PC and an IBM AT-339.  In both cases, I have attached a second hard disk to the standard hard disk adapter card.  In both cases, I can do a MKFS on /dev/hd5, but in neither case can I use the minor device partitions /dev/hd6 through /dev/hd9.  I perfromed a mknod on each of the minor devices with b 3 x as the arguments, where b is block type, 3 is the major device, and x is 6,7,8 or 9 as per the /dev name.  When I attempt do do a MKFS on these device names, I get an error that


 MINIX cannot write the boot block.  As Of this time, I am using the entire 20 meg /dev/hd5 as one file system, and all seems well. but I really would like to partition the drive properly.
  Has anyone gotten similar behavior out of 1.2?  Am I missing something?
-Thanks in advance...
John