Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!sbanner1 From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Wini Driver for OMTI 30M HD, with ST238. Message-ID: <403@uvicctr.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 17:15:28 GMT References: <389@uvicctr.UUCP> <1783@akgua.ATT.COM> Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada Lines: 25 In article <1783@akgua.ATT.COM> brb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter) writes: >From article <389@uvicctr.UUCP>, by sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner): >> >> Hello, Now that Summer is here, I have time to work on getting >> Minix going on my new HardDrive. The standard driver (Version 1.1) >> gives me "Unrecoverable read errors" on what seems like random sectors >> S. John Banner >you will have to do some checking to get the sectors per track. It might be a >good idea to do this anyway. When I asked a dealer what the sectors per track >for my controller was, he said that it was either 25 or 26 and that it depended >pretty much on the controller. > > Good Lock, > > Brian R. Bainter Thanks to all those of you who sent suggestions, I got it working last night, the problem was apparently that I was using 25 sectors per track, and I should have been using 26 (the responses here were the first to mention that it might require 26, not 25, and I am not a hardware type, so ... :-). Thanks again to everyone who helped, sjb.