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From: tcamp@dukeac.UUCP (Ted A. Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Novice request:  use of Seagate ST225 2/MINIX 1.1
Message-ID: <1087@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 13:26:33 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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This comes as a request from a total novice at MINIX, so it has probably 
been dealt with before.  I'll appreciate any help.  

I have brought MINIX 1.1 up on an XT clone which has a 20 meg Seagate ST225
hard disk drive.  I reformatted the drive with a 150-cylinder (0-149)
partition, then marked the partition as non-DOS with diskfix.  I then 
prepared the rest of the cylinders as a new DOS partition, and set up 
my DOS software on it.  

After booting MINIX, I attempted to make a file system using the 
following command:  

	mkfs /dev/hd1 5099

This failed.  The documentation for 1.1, including the READ_ME file 
in /usr/doc is pretty explicit that the driver if for the IBM hard disk
drive only, so I presume that is why <mkfs> failed with the Seagate.  

Is there in fact a driver or a patch that will allow me to use the Seagate
drive?

Again, any help will be appreciated.  

Ted A. Campbell
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