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From: finn@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Problem using mkfs on Miniscribe HD
Message-ID: <61500001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 88 18:22:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!finn    Oct 21 13:22:00 1988



I am trying to get MINIX v1.2 (the 512K AT version from PH) running
on a 12MhZ AT clone (from Bently Computers) with a 44 Mb Miniscribe
disk (28ms) and a Western Digital controller (I think).

I can boot up off the floppies fine and run MINIX with out any problem,
but I would like to set up a MINIX partition on the hard disk before
I try to do anything (like upgrade to 1.3).  I have used a utility
from Ontrack to make the first two partitions on the DISK non Dos partitions.
As far as I can tell from what I have read, at this point all I need to
do in MINIX is use mkfs to make the file system.  (I can use fdisk
to show that the partitions are there where I expect them)

When I run mkfs, I just get an apparantly infinite loop of unexpected
interrupt messages from the kernel.  The message says that the interupt
number is <= 16.  The sources and include files for AT_WINI lead me
to believe that the western digital controller uses an interupt somewhere
in the 200's, so I don't know what this interupt is.  (But the XT
controller uses an interupt number somewhere below 16).  At this point
I am stuck, and don't really feel like trying to hack with this without
being able to use the hard disk.  (I only have one floppy drive.)

Does anyone have any suggestions?

	                    Thanks, Stephen Wood
	                    saw@uiucnpl.npl.uiuc.edu