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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC HD partition boundaries for Minix
Message-ID: <2607@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 2 May 90 03:29:26 GMT
References: <380@trux.UUCP> <610008@hpnmdla.HP.COM> <24421@usc.edu>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.oz.au (Bruce.Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <24421@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>In article <610008@hpnmdla.HP.COM> billm@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Bill Marlin) writes:
>>In the USER-GUIDE it says that all partitions should have an even
>>number of cylinders, even MSDOS partitions.

It should say "an even number of *sectors*".

>How is this possible if your disk has an odd number of cylinders?  In my

By throwing 1 away. There is no need to allocate all sectors or cylinders
to partitions.
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Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.syd.dit.csiro.au