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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.44 drives (3.5")
Keywords: size
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.130340.8175@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 90 17:03:41 GMT
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In article <588@escom.com> al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) writes:
>In the immortal words of Col. Sherman Potter on MASH, "Cow cookies."
>Unless Charles has seriously hacked his version of MINIX to handle 1.44 meg 
>diskettes, then he most certainly is not getting 1.44 meg with /dev/at1.

Sorry, Sherm.  I'm running 1.5.10 (well, I have the Virtual Consoles,
but that doesn't affect the disks.), and I get 1.44 Meg from /dev/at1
with no problems.  All I did was change a define somewhere in the sources
from "AUTOMATIC" to "THREE_INCH".  (Or something like that.  My Minix
machine is in the shop right now, so I can't check it.)  You just have
to let Minix know it's a 3.5 and not a 5.25.  I don't consider this a
"serious" hack.  I have the entire 1.5.10 sources, tar'd and comic'd,
which takes just under 1.4 Meg, on a single 1.44.

-- 
"The number of programs that can be done with the Hubble Space Telescope has
always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this
remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science
Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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