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From: vrh@mh_co2.mh.nl (Michael Verheij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problem using mkfs on Miniscribe HD
Keywords: Miniscribe HD
Message-ID: <2523@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 27 Oct 88 10:41:47 GMT
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In article <61500001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> finn@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>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).
>
> ...
>
>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).

I've got a 10 MHz Tulip AT clone with a 20 MB Miniscribe HD and a
SCSI-controller. I can't get a file system on hard disk either.
MINIX supports on a AT only the standard (WD) AT-controller and nothing else.
So check your controller to see if it's a WD one.

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