Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!gatech!udel!mmdf From: Hugh_Messenger.EuroPARC@xerox.com Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Hard disk hassles + minix.img format problem Message-ID: <5515@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 17 Nov 88 21:49:22 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 31 My Triangle 40Mb hard disk problem has strangely mutated itself. It now doesn't get as far as attempting to find the root fs on fd0, and instead the only message printed at boot time is kernel panic: disk task got message from -1 Press reset button. (or words to that effect) I suspect that this may be due to having the SLM804 interface connected, as this is the only change I have made since previous attempts at booting with the hard disk connected. Has anyone else experienced problems with the SLM804C? If the SLM804C is responsible, this could make developing a driver for the SLM804 slightly tricky .. I've resigned myself to having to write a new hard disk driver, and am trying to get a hold of the specs and source code for the NEC ST506 and original TOS driver. Does anyone else out there have one of these Triangle drives, or any drive that uses the NEC ST506 chip set? Has anyone got any non-standard hard disk drivers I could look at (I've never written a disk driver before)? As for the minix.img problem ("incorrect format") - has this been tracked down yet? I see from other postings that I'm not the only one with this problem. -- Hugh -- Hippo.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM /* Xerox PARC are in no way associated with my MINIX-ST traumas */ #include