UNIX

[John M. Wright]

In article <1991May21.172327.11881 at watson.ibm.com> sck at biko.watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <21747 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup at cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>|> 
>|> 	Some people at cs.vu.nl have A590/A2091 drivers running and available
>|> -- 
>   Which people have these? I really want to use MINIX on my 2500 and I have
>the 2091. Where is the software found? Who has it? 
>-- 

To answer your question, I am posting the following from comp.os.minix
(I suggest you check out comp.os.minix if you are interested in minix; much
lower volume than the various ami groups, so not difficult!  For some reason,
almost no amiga minix material gets posted to comp.unix.amiga.  The amiga
minix has come a long way since it appeared;  it runs on 68020/68030 systems,
supports at least one hard drive interface (the A590/A2091), and the filesystem
on floppys is stable (none of these were true of the original release!,
at least on 2000's!)

]From: sreiz at cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz)
]Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
]Subject: Re: WHAT AMIGA HARD DRIVES ARE SUPPORTED UNDER MINIX!!!???
]Date: 27 Mar 91 12:45:46 GMT

]jeremym at chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:

]]Well.. I hear that there is no *OFFICIAL* HD support for 
]]Minix, and the only thing keeping me from buying it
]]is a HD patch for my Trumpcard... 
]]Is it supported? If not, what *ARE*??

]Eh, nope. The Commodore A590, with SCSI and/or XT disks connected, is
]supported. The Commodore A2091 hd controller and the A3000's harddisk
]may be supported as well. I'm saying it that careful because I'm not
](yet) sure how well our most recent version of minix works with those
]controllers.

]	Steven

]PS. Our most recent version can be ftp-ed from ftp.cs.vu.nl [130.37.24.6],
]directory /pub/sreiz/minix.

This is a beta version, and does not yet include diffs for the source
code, but Reiz and company are reported to be working hard to whip it
into shape for full release.  I have a trumpcard, not a 2091, so I can't
address how the hard drive support works, but it runs fine on my B2000
with A2620 board.

   John Wright	Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093-0314
		jmw at chem.ucsd.edu  jwright at ucsd   (619) 534-3049