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- From: dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Amiga MINIX floppy problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.235329.15132@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 23:53:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.034442.17351@nap.amoco.com> <1992Aug20.024622.3197@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
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- Thanks for that. At least I know it wasn't just me.
- I'll keep your tips in mind.
-
- Now for the good news! Although I consistently got errors by using a PC
- diskcopy program (on a PC in fact), when using transfer -f in AmigaDOS
- mode, followed by diskcopy in Minix, things worked just dandy. I noticed a
- couple of weird things however:
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- 1. If I tried to write protect my originals when diskcopying
- Minix seemed to assume that the target disk was
- write-protected too. Does Minix only check for the write
- protected status of the source disk?
-
- 2. If I used a disk that I had previously used to copy one
- of the Minix originals onto (via PC diskcopy), it would
- come through the transfer -f okay, but a Minix diskcopy
- would fail to work correctly, instead giving a heap of
- bad sector errors.
-
- Along with the PC diskcopy failures, 2 leads me to conclude that the floppy
- drivers must be very sensitive in Minix...
-
- Now that I have Minix up and running, I intend to install the patches, and
- customise things a little.
-
- I apologise for the severe tone of "voice" I used in my last posting. I
- guess I was just getting a tad frustrated.
-
- Oh, BTW, can someone give me an answer to the question I posed last time
- about how to get Minix to accept the ROOT and /usr disks in a different
- drive at boot time? The prompt for the ROOT disk says that the bootdev can
- be specified. Does this mean just another disk apart from ROOT in dd0? Or
- can I specify the 2nd or 3rd disk drive...?
-
- Regards...
-
-
-
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- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au
- David Benn - Applied Computing, University of Tasmania at Launceston.
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