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- From: osymh@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to ask (but waited for me to)
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.172019.1924@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:20:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.224119.10931@news.Hawaii.Edu> <15918@star.cs.vu.nl>
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- In article <15918@star.cs.vu.nl> sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven) writes:
- >newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham) writes:
- >>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.
-
- I had problems with the floppy drive on my Amiga 1000, even with the
- 1.5.10.1/1.5.10.2 versions. I have been working on an AmigaDOS program
- to read/write a Minix filesystem and by using the messydisk.device from
- MSH (MessyDOS FileSystem Handler), and it seemed to work much better.
-
- >>(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)).
- >
-
- 1.5.10.2 won't run on the 68040 if you are using AmigaDOS 2.04. The loader
- attempts to turn off the MMU translation, and the 68030 instruction for that
- is invalid on the 68040. Also the cache control instructions are different,
- so the cache invalidate routines have to be modified.
-
- Also, even though amwini.c says it supports the A2090, it doesn't. I was
- able to borrow a friend's A2090 card and try it out. I disassembled the
- AmigaDOS driver enough to determine that the A2090 interface is quite
- different from the way amwini.c tries to use it.
-
- Michael L. Hitch
-
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