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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Large Disks
Message-ID: <3541@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Oct 89 11:40:27 GMT
References: <241@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> <3491@ast.cs.vu.nl> <2988@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <2988@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) writes:
>I think it would also be very useful to be able to SET the disk geometry
>parameters in the driver with the ioctl

Ioctl really isn't for disks.  It would be best if the driver could figure
out the geometry itself.  I thought it made some BIOS call for this, but
I didn't write at_wini.c, and am not really sure.  If something is wrong
there, it should be fixed.

>Also on my "fix" wish-list is a fdisk that knows what a DOS 16-bit FAT
>partition is.  Right now it lists it as unknown (or something like that).

Anybody with some knowledge of DOS want to volunteer for this?  Fdisk is
clearly an important program and should get it right.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)