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4927.1 | | STAR::GUINEAU | but what was the question? | Fri Jul 26 1991 18:16 | 42 |
| > My questions now are.
Ah yes, frustrations of long past :-)
> 1. Can Minix V1.5 run on this configuration?
Should run fine. Don;t expect to get hard disk though. The hard disk only
supports A2091, A590 and the A3000 internal SCSI.
> 2. Has anyone seen these problems before and have a fix?
You should definelty use the latest stuff I posted (found on DFS::MINIX:)
since it fixes many nasty bugs in the original version. I think I numbered
this version wrong. The original was 1.5.10, the update is 1.5.10.1 (I think!)
> 3. Am I suppose to be able to read/write Minix disk with MSH?
No. Minix has it's own file system. MSH uses the MSDOS file system. The low
level format is the same (IBM 720K) but the layout of data ("the file system")
is different.
> 4. Is there a Amiga program that will read/write Minix disks?
No, not yet. The only way is to use transfer (which by the way is supposed to
be much better on the update disk. Use that one and throw away the version
that came with the original distribution). I believe you can also use the
ST version of the copy program on the Minix side and use DOS2DOS (or something
like that) on the amiga side.
> 5. Does this sound like bad distribution disk from P.H.?
There was a problem way back where PH was shipping bad disks. I'm not sure
if they fixed it. It took me a coupel months to get new ones from a very
nice person in the UK!
> 6. Are there any other Amiga utilities out there to copy from
> AmigaDos to Minix?
No.
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4927.2 | Thanks for the help | SALSA::DUPRE | God is real (unless declared INTEGER) | Tue Jul 30 1991 02:37 | 44 |
| John,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have three files that I copied from DFS::
Amiga_1_5_10_boot.lzh
Amiga_1_5_10_src.tar
a3000final.txt
The boot lharc file is what I used to build my boot disk. It
seems to still have some problems though. I have to chmem ls to 12k
to get it to work and transfer is still flakey but at lease diskcopy
works and I can backup the master disks. Also I can't get the files
from A3000final.txt to unpack. When I run uudecode on it, it tells me
it can't fined the end of file or end command or something like that.
I was able to de-compress the output and get a tar file but it has
some bad blocks in it. Is this the 1.5.10.1 release?
> Should run fine. Don;t expect to get hard disk though. The hard disk only
> supports A2091, A590 and the A3000 internal SCSI.
Yes I did expect to use the hard disk. The extract below is from the
amiga_1_5_10_src.tar. Or do yuo know of a problem with the A2090?
/* "amwini.c" Author: Raymond Michiels
*
* This file contains a driver which supports the following hard disks:
*
* Commodore A590 XT / SCSI
* Commodore A2090 SCSI (not ST-506!)
* Commodore A2091 SCSI
* Commodore A3000 SCSI
*
* The driver supports two operations: read a block and write a block.
* It accepts two messages, one for reading and one for writing,
* both using message format m2 and with the same parameters:
Thanks again for your help John, You've saved some of my hair.
Bob Dupre
The only DECie AMIGAn in Tucson,AZ.
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4927.3 | | STAR::GUINEAU | but what was the question? | Tue Jul 30 1991 10:34 | 16 |
| > Amiga_1_5_10_boot.lzh
> Amiga_1_5_10_src.tar
These are the 1.5.10.1 release. I'm not sure what's in a3000final.txt but
everything you need is in the first 2 plus the original distrubution. The
Amiga_1_5_10_src.tar file contains patches (diffs) to the original source.
> Yes I did expect to use the hard disk. The extract below is from the
> amiga_1_5_10_src.tar. Or do yuo know of a problem with the A2090?
Maybe it works then. You'll know if, when you boot Minix, you get a hard disk
partition table printed. If it does, they recognize the 2090 and you can
try to set it up as they describe in the docs...
john
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4927.4 | Your drives are ST-506? | HSSTPT::WILSONTL | Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!) | Tue Jul 30 1991 13:13 | 11 |
| Maybe I'm missing something...You said you DID expect it to work.
> * Commodore A590 XT / SCSI
> * Commodore A2090 SCSI (not ST-506!)
> * Commodore A2091 SCSI ^^^^^^^^^^^
> * Commodore A3000 SCSI
> *
You said you had ST-506.
Tony
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4927.5 | The A2090 and A2090a support SCSI and ST-506 | PAMSRC::63653::BARRETT | Keith meister, making notes | Tue Jul 30 1991 13:20 | 0 |
4927.6 | | HSSTPT::WILSONTL | Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!) | Tue Jul 30 1991 13:38 | 2 |
| The A2090 et al. may support ST-506, but the driver in Minix may not.
Just basing my comment on what the text said in the listing.
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4927.7 | | STAR::GUINEAU | but what was the question? | Tue Jul 30 1991 18:20 | 4 |
| > The A2090 et al. may support ST-506, but the driver in Minix may not.
> Just basing my comment on what the text said in the listing.
I believe that's correct..
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