Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!ncsuvx!news From: wall-rt@cscosl.ncsu.edu (Richard Todd Wall) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Hard Disk Problems with Ver 1.2.0 Message-ID: <1990Feb23.152053.2497@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 15:20:53 GMT Organization: Operating Systems Laboratory (OSL), NCSU, Raleigh NC Lines: 25 I've been having Many Many problems with getting my Hard Disk to work with Minix version 1.2.0. I have a 15 meg. Hard Drive (306 cyl. 6 heads).. I'm running it as a second hard drive, i.e. dev/hd5 hd6 hd7 hd8 hd9. That stuff is all set up correctly because I can use that statement in ~~ out count=100 whatever, anyway that works with out any errors. I rebuild my kernel and my boot disk with the change in the wini.c file. I changed the Heads declaration to 6 instead of 4. I set up 2 partitions, 1 - 1 meg. partition and 1 - 14 meg. partition. When I do mkfs for hd6 as 240 block that seems to work. (How do I know?? Doesn't error up.) When I do mkfs for hd7 with 14000 blocks or even 10000 blocks it give some kind of putchar error. I try to mount hd6 and that doesn't work either. Do I need to recompile mkfs and change some line to tell the number of heads??? What's going on?????? The first time I posted this message I got a lot of "me too" replys so if someone would please clear up this problem, I would be very grateful..... Thanks........ o o ______ _ _____ _ _ o o mcnc!bacchus!beretta!todd ' ' / / / ' ) / // // ' ' or wall-rt@cscosl.ncsu.edu / ______/ __/ / / / __. // // _/ (_) (_/_(_/_ (_(_/ (_/|_