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From: jeff@polyof.UUCP (A1 jeff giordano )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.minix
Subject: ST MINIX
Keywords: yes, looks good.
Message-ID: <395@polyof.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 14:20:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: polyof.395
Organization: Polytechnic University, Farmingdale NY
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[Mr Line Eater, try to snort this line]

A week or so back I posted a question asking if the BMS hard disk
board would work with ST-MINIX. I got two replies, both have good news,
they are as follows: (edited of course)

>From Vance Chin of Berkley Microsystems:
>        We have not tried Minix ST with the BMS-100.  Our board emulates
>the SH204 hard drive host adapter so it should work.
>        The only thing I'm wondering about is if Minix has it's own formatter
>or if it just uses the format the ST uses.
>
>Vance Chin @ Berkeley Microsystems


>From Gerry Wheeler
>Yes, it works fine.  I'm using a 520 with 1 meg, colour monitor, BMS
>controller with two ST225 drives.  As supplied, MINIX knows about 1 SCSI
>controller with one drive having up to four partitions.  However, by
>altering a couple of constants and recompiling it will handle up to
>eight controllers with two drives each.
>
>At the moment, I have four partitions on my first drive -- 2 meg for
>GEM's C: drive (for accessories, etc.), 1 meg for GEM's D: drive, 1 meg
>for MINIX root file system, and 16 meg for MINIX working.  My other disk
>has two partitions for GEM.  By installing disk icons for only drives C,
>D, G, and H, I can prevent GEM from writing on the MINIX partitions. 
>
>MINIX does not have any 16 meg limit on partition sizes, but the BMS
>software won't create a partition larger than that.  However, one of
>MINIX's devices references the entire (unpartitioned) disk, so I think
>I'll make the changes to MINIX, and then dedicate my whole second drive
>to it. 
> --
>     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
>Mortice Kern Systems Inc.               UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
>   35 King St. North                             BIX: join mks
>Waterloo, Ontario  N2J 2W9                  CompuServe: 73260,1043
>

Vance and Gerry:  Thank you very much for your input.


Geoffrey Giordano
INET: jeff@polyof.poly.edu
UUCP: ...trixie!polyof!jeff

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