Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!amra From: amra@cis.ohio-state.edu (Nasir K Amra) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: getting minix on a 30 meg. supra Message-ID: <29331@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 03:11:29 GMT Sender: amra@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 6 I am having problems getting minix on the E partition of my 30 megabyte Supra Hard disk drive ( a Seagate ST225 drive and Adeptec 4070 adapter) which was formatted with Supra HD utility 2.61 . When I tried to "mkfs /dev/hd3 10000" I got a series of "dicarded DMA interrupt " messages and finally a kernal panic. Is there any work around for this problem?