Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!nlgvax!johan From: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minx ST BUg Keywords: tos -r on hard disk Message-ID: <151@nlgvax.UUCP> Date: 8 Nov 88 23:01:08 GMT References: Reply-To: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson) Organization: Philips Research Geldrop Lines: 51 In article paone@topaz.rutgers.edu (Phil Paone) writes: > >I found what appears to be a bug with the tos command and hard disks. I get the >file starting after the firt few lines and then a get the beginning of >the next file on the disk at the end. So, the byte count is right, >but I am getting parts of two files. I works fine on the floppy drive >though. > >I will look at the source code eventually and report if I find >anything else. Does anyone else have this problem? >-- >Phil Paone >paone@topaz.rutgers.edu >!rutgers.edu!topaz.edu!ppaone Since already some other users have reported similar problems I must conclude that something is wrong here. I consider this a rather serious problem, since it might corrupt your TOS volumes (I do not say it does, but chances are...). So, please avoid the use of the tos(1) command on hard disks until the problems are located and fixed. If some MINIX-ST users have time to dig into this problem I would ver much appreciate that. Since I haven't looked into the tos(1) program myself before, I can offer no immediate help right now, except for putting it very high on priority list. Let us use the power of the user community (not too bg right now, but hopefully growing fast). Please report any progress to me (or to this newsgroup), so that I can sanction a solution as the "official" one, much like Andy Tanenbaum does for MINIX-PC. A note on my mail address: in the announcement of MINIX-ST Andy Tanenbaum mentioned johan@nlgvax.nl as my e-mail address. This is incorrect. It is either ...!mcvax!nlgvax!johan or johan@nlgvax.uucp or, preferably, johan@pcg.philips.nl Sorry for the confusion. Johan W. Stevenson, Philips Research Laboratories, Project Centre Geldrop, Building XR, Room 15, Willem Alexanderlaan 7B, 5664 AN Geldrop, The Netherlands. phone: +31 40 892205 email: johan@pcg.philips.nl