Message from discussion problems with sh205-harddisk

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From: j...@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: problems with sh205-harddisk
Message-ID: <43972@unlisys.in-berlin.de>
Date: 26 Aug 91 18:22:56 GMT
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j...@dobag.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) writes:

>Hello minixers,
>i have big problems by patching my out-of-the-house minix (1.5.10-ST)
>to 1.5.10.3... The first patch i have already installed doesnt accept
>the highest harddisk-partition. as it is an original atari sh205 i
>think it shoud do, shouldn't it? The pi_flag is set to INVALID at the
>very end of do_open() in kernel/stwini.c. But i really can't figut out
>how this comes. remember: it is only the very highest partition...
>all other work correctly.

maybe i forgot somethink to say: the highest partition is part 4. so there
is no extended partitioniring, as i use one of the oldest versions of the
atari hdx-programm to format the disk.

>did i miss a bugfix? or is the harddisk wrong formatted?
>thanx a very lot for any help!!!!!!!!
>Joerg
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