Re: [MiNT] update on my situation

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hi Guido!

> > Currently, I use a small Minix partition, because the Ext2 tools
> > refuse to work as simple TTP.  It seems they require real CLI.
> 
> The most common problem is that the desktop doesn't properly fill the
> argument vector of programs (i. e. argv[0] is NULL). Apart from that (and
> maybe missing envariables) there is no difference between TTP and
> invocation from a shell.
> 
> Frank, have you tested if the tools run under plain TOS?

No and they will not work under PlainTOS because the tools require Dlock().

> > Something new:   MinixFS 0.71 constantly reports block_IO errors
> > or "inode not written when drive free" (or something), whenever 
> > I copy large directories containing many files.  The strange
> > thing is this version _used_ to work flawlessly, on my old setup.
> 
> I got messages like that too, but they occured depending on the hard disk
> and not depending on Minix or MiNT version.

Do you mean bad blocks?


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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