Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix 386 v2.3 bug?
Summary: Don't use drive A to format
Keywords: Xenix,Unix,80386
Message-ID: <259@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 01:21:47 GMT
References: <40@maxx.UUCP>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
Lines: 27

In article <40@maxx.UUCP>, tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:
. I just finished installing version Xenix version 2.3 recently, and (more or
. less) immediately stumbled over two apparent bugs:
. 
. 1. System panics trying to format a floppy
. 
. When trying to format a 96TPI 5.25" floppy in drive "A", the system takes a
. general protection panic before it even accesses the drive. Reads (tar,
. dosdir, etc.) seem to work okay.
. 
. 
	(other stuff deleted)
. 
. I installed this new version primarily to get HDB uucp, which I like a lot. I
. was a little surprised at the format bug (that one would seem unlikely to get
. through simple testing, eh?), but I'm not THAT upset--it is new, and the
. problems may just be on my machine.
. 


According to the documention, drive A is mapped to /dev/install, which is NOT
suitable for formatting.  They recommend using /dev/rfd096 or /dev/rfd048
to format.  (/dev/install cycles through different disk densities looking
for a match)

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.