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From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix 1.5 Answers (floppies again)
Summary: format of distribution disks
Keywords: distribution floppies atari amiga mac
Message-ID: <1503@targon.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:45:32 GMT
References: <7718@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
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Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., DO, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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>Q: What floppy format does Minix use?
>A: Minix uses (of course) the normal [Amiga] diskdrives but uses the same
>   format as the atari ST: double sided, 80 cylinders and 9 sectors/track.
>   This gives a capacity of 720 KB per disk and full compatibility with
>   ST minix, most of the disks in the atari and amiga distribution of 
>   minix are identical.

Hello you all,
sorry to start this over again but something came back to my memory.
The distribution disks of Minix ST 1.1  were only 360 KB (single sided).
						  ^^^^^^
Probably because Atari (like *BM) in the early Eighties thought that
360 K drives were good enough to start with.  Somewhat later they introduced
the 720 K (double sided) drives.  I believe at this moment hardly any Atari ST
user has a 360 K drive as his/her only floppy station.
I might be wrong though :-)

Anyway I am wondering what format the Minix 1.5 distribution (68K) is in.
360 K  or  720 K disks?.

Does it cost $169 because an (almost) obsolete disk format doubles the number
of disks?  (Not a flame)

>   The PC minix 3.5" disk format is very much like
>   the amiga/atari format but not yet fully compatible. They will be in
>   the future.
>                                        Steven Reiz

One good reason to look forward to Minix 2.0 (199x)

Happy hacking,
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Gert Kanis              gert@targon.UUCP
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