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From: torre@cs.eur.nl (Leon van der Torre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: clustersize problem
Keywords: clustersize Vfeature
Message-ID: <1989Sep11.115424.7175@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 11 Sep 89 11:54:24 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam, dept. EUR/EF/CS (Informatica)
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I am trying to update my minix 1.2 to 1.4a, because I want to use 
1.44M floppies on a Olivetti M280. I encountered two problems:

1) clustersize problem
Dosread and doswrite have a constant called maxclustersize, and the 
value is 2K. My hard disk has a clustersize of 4K, so I tried to 
change this constant, but I got a lot of errors I didn't understand.
Next thing I tried was to change the clustersize of my hard disk,
but this isn't so straightforward as I expected. But there is a
program called V-feature of Bow Systems that does the thing and it costs
about $75. My question: is there a simple solution for the problem and 
is there anyone how has any experience with the program V-feature?

2) Error: bad word size
I probably mixed up two different versions of cc, because now I get
the above error every time I try to compile a c program (even an empty
program). There are no line numbers given and I don't really understand
the error. Does anyone know what this error means and what I can do 
about it?

Thanks in advance,

Leon van der Torre
torre@cs.eur.nl
Erasmus University Rotterdam