XENIX problems and a gripe
ORCUTT at cc.utah.edu
ORCUTT at cc.utah.edu
Sun Nov 12 04:29:55 AEST 1989
In reply to Karl's posting and to several others that mailed replies:
1) Evidently Disk Manager doesn't write the partition info. in
a way XENIX likes; I deleted the DOS partition and recreated it
with DOS FDISK. Now I can boot DOS by typing "dos" at the
XENIX boot prompt.
2) The diskette writing problem seems to be an incompatiblilty
between my old (1985) WD AT hard/floppy controller and
XENIX-386. More experimentation has shown me that when
XENIX writes to either floppy (a 1.2 M one as A: and a
1.44 M one as B:) every odd-numbered byte written is a
zero. It doesn't matter whether the floppy is a DOS
floppy formatted under DOS and written with doscp or a
XENIX floppy, for example, tar'ing to /dev/rfd0
(= /dev/rfd096ds15). XENIX won't format a floppy on this
system, because the superblock contains every other
byte zero. I currently write floppies by copying files
to the DOS partition using doscp and then booting DOS
and copying from the hard drive to a floppy (DOS writes
diskettes just fine on this machine). Has anyone had
a problem like this? I have a Western Digital
S100013 (I think) hard/floppy controller running in
a 16 MHz iSBC-386 computer from Intel (it drives the
bus at 16 MHz). The controller has revision no. "X1".
I tried my other machine's controller, which is identical
to the first one, with identical results.
3) I compiled JOVE and another EMACS under XENIX-386,
as well as ARC. Is there a place that I can post the
binaries for those without the developers' kit?
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