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- From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to ask (but waited for me to)
- Message-ID: <15918@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:43:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.224119.10931@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
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- newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham) writes:
-
- >Various minix questions not covered in the FAQ I read...
-
- I guess I should write an amiga minix FAQ sheet, for now I'll
- happily answer them for the quadrizillionth time :-)
-
- Oh, BTW, it helps to include the word 'amiga' in the subject line,
- your subject line was really a bit to vague (but intriguing, I must
- admit).
-
- >on my A2000 refuses to accept minix disks (or rather minix refuses
- >to play along with it)
-
- The Prentice Hall distribution of amiga minix has some bugs in, a.o.,
- the floppy driver. Please try 1.5.10.1 or 1.5.10.2.
-
- >(2) has there been any device driver written for amiga disks that
- >uses amiga standard tracks rather than the ibm mfm format? (I would
- >imagine such devices would be faster and more reliable on amiga
- >drives, and have slightly better capacity. But disk compatibility
- >would be lost)
-
- Not yet, the AmigaOS trackdisk.device uses the blitter to encode/decode
- floppy tracks. So, there would be two ways to implement this
- - Complicated (at least for me), using the blitter.
- - Easier, using the CPU to encode/decode, but at least as slow as the current
- method.
-
- >(3) Which hard drives are currently supported, including any
- >available via ftp on internet.
-
- The PH distribution supports neither harddisks, nor 68010 and higher
- processors.
- The 1.5.10.1 (and higher) support processors up to the 68030 (68040 untested)
- and Commodore harddisk controllers (A590, A2091, A3091 (builtin-A3000)).
-
- >(4) has there been any work done on MMU support or other (better than
- >'000 can support) features?
-
- Work is underway to implement memory protection/VM for the Atari ST/TT,
- this code could easily be copied into the amiga version.
-
- >(5) Where are all the diff's at, where are minix binaries at? where
- >is the manual page set at? Is there a nice organized ftp list
- >concerning minix that details what programs and which type of programs
- >are available?
-
- Dunno about the nice list, amiga-specific stuff is pretty rare (as far as I know
- just the 1.5.10.1 and 1.5.10.2 updates). This stuff is available from
- ftp.cs.vu.nl, directory /pub/sreiz/minix. For 68000 minix stuff
- (mainly applications such as gcc), try plains.nodak.edu.
-
- >(6) Any question i didnt ask but meant to...
-
- 42.
-
- Bye!
-
- Steven
-