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From: sch@oce-rd1.oce.nl (Jakob Schripsema)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Using an RLL controller with Minix?
Message-ID: <1291@oce-rd1.oce.nl>
Date: 21 Sep 89 08:29:52 GMT
References: <631.2515BB51@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: sch@oce-rd4.UUCP (Jakob Schripsema)
Organization: Oce-Nederland bv, Venlo, the Netherlands
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In article <631.2515BB51@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Is it possible to use an RLL controller with Minix?  More specifically,
>I want to take a 30MB RLL drive I have now and use 20MB of it with Minix.
>I plan on dividing it up into three filesystems -- /, /usr, and /tmp.
>The other 10MB I'm going to use with DOS.
>
>Does the Minix XT hard disk driver support RLL drives?  If the "stock"
>version doesn't, is there a patch that will make it work?
>
	I've been using a 30MB disk with an WD compatible RLL controller
	for several weeks now. No problem at all. Change the diskparameters
	in xt_wini.c to the ones you need (26 sectors/track if I remember
	correctly) and it should work.

	JaKob Schripsema (sch @oce.nl)
	Oce Nederland B.V.
	P.O. Box 101
	5900MA Venlo
	The Netherlands
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