Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!columbia!cs!cs.columbia.edu!abrams From: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: 3.5" disks, PS/2 model 50Z Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 89 20:39:30 GMT References: <2879@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Sender: abrams@cs.columbia.edu Organization: Columbia University Lines: 26 In-reply-to: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu's message of 29 Dec 89 18:17:39 GMT In <2879@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Jess Anderson writes: [...Stuff about 3.5" drives deleted...] That sparked the interest of a colleague who has a PS/2 model 50Z with a 3.5" drive A and a hard disk. I was a bit astonished that the boot disk seemed to be acceptable, at least I got the boot menu. But it would not read the root file system after the = entry (reads /dev/fd0 forever). But I also seem to remember that model 50 was not yet on the compatibility list. Anyone know the facts here? I just TA'ed a class using Minix, and one of the students had a Model 50Z. Plain vanilla 1.3 would not work on that machine. However, 1.4.2, which ast sent me, did work. So did 1.4.5, which I was beta-testing. I assume that 1.5.0 will work, but I haven't unpacked my stuff (nor will I 'til I get back to school after break). ~~Steve -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu * **************************************************/ #include #include