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From: larrym@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Larry Mulcahy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix on 3-1/2" floppies
Summary: want help to get Minix running on system with 3-1/2" drives
Message-ID: <7190@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 17 Feb 89 03:42:57 GMT
Reply-To: larrym@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Larry Mulcahy)
Organization: World Faith Missions, Inc.
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I have the Minix system on 5-1/4" disks and would like to get it running
on my NEC Multispeed which is a 640K PCompatible using 3-1/2" disks.  I
have access to a system which has both 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" drives.  On this
XT the A and B drives are the 5-1/4" ones and the C and D drives are the
3-1/2" ones.

I can easily bring up Minix, format disks, etc.  My every effort to access
the 720K 3-1/2" drives has failed.  I tried 

mknod /dev/fd2 b 2 3

to get a device corresponding to drive C but no operation on this device
would work.  Is it necessary to write a whole different device driver?
Has anyone already solved this problem?