Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby
From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Hard disk partitions?
Message-ID: <564@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 87 04:54:05 GMT
References: <5500001@ucf-cs.ucf.edu>
Reply-To: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <5500001@ucf-cs.ucf.edu> tony@ucf-cs.ucf.edu writes:
> Minix crashes unpredictably.  It will die during the mount command 
>or if it passes that, during a cp -- not necessarily the first cp, 
>but eventually.

At NDSU, we have several people running 1.2 off of hard disks and I have
never heard of anybody having a problem like this (I'm normally first to
hear about problems) I don't know what partitions everybody is using,
but I dont think everybody is on hd1.  I DO know that the one department
machine uses partition #2 with no problems (DOS is on partition one so
that if somebody turns the machine off without parking the hard disk
head it will hopefully land on the DOS FAT rather than our inode table). 

>Does version 1.2 resolve this problem?  (I have the diffs but haven't 
>installed them yet.)

I suggest upgrading to the 1.2 driver (if not the whole thing) and see if
your problem goes away.
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