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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Large Disks
Message-ID: <3491@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:58:25 GMT
References: <241@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <241@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> nall@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
>This is kind of an "alpha version" of tentative results 
Keep up the good work and please post cdifs when you get it straightened out.

I hadn't realized that fdisks quietly assumed 4 heads.  That is probably
very dangerous nowadays.  One solution is to force the number of heads
as a parameter, and give a Usage: message is not supplied.  Any other ideas?

At the Efficiency Beurs, I tried fdisk on some machines and it said the
partition table was empty (all 0s).  Is that because all those disks had
more than 4 heads, or do clones keep the partition table somewhere else
these days?

Andy Tanenbaum