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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot)
Subject: Re: MINIX & SCSI Harddisk?
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 09:23:29 GMT
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fvkampen@cs.vu.nl (Kampen van F) writes:

>bulgroz@datashopper.dk writes:

>>Hi,

>>I'm trying to install Minix 1.5 on a IBM PS/2 8580. It's an older 80386 with 4 mb ram and
>>160 Mb scsi harddisk.
>>I have no problems running  Minix, but I can't install it on the harddisk. 
>>I have tested the disk with 'dd if=/dev/hd0 etc' and it worked fine. The problem
>>arises when I try to fdisk the drive. I don't know the number of heads or sectors,
>>so I use the default values. I then make two minix partitions and reboot, but running
>>fdisk shows that the harddisk is not partitioned.

>>I would appreciate any help or hints to get over this problem. Thanks in advance.

>>							
>>							-Tommy

>Sorry, in the last post I ment:
>hd=scsi.
>And in fdisk you can load the parameters set on the disk...

We're dealing with Minix 1.5 here, ergo no boot monitor.  Besides that,
even 1.7 has no 'hd=scsi' setting, the SCSI driver is a separate driver
with its own device names sd0, sd1, etc.  And its only for the Adaptec
154x series.

Tommy, did you tell fdisk to write the changed table?
--
								Kees.
