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From: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5 hard disks and shoelace
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.130224.14626@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 2 Oct 90 13:02:24 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.161742.6509@mdivax1.uucp>
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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What do you have NR_SECTORS defined to?  Most RLL controllers use 26
sectors but some use 25.  From the description of the errors you get, this
sounds like it could be the problem.  I was using two different XTs with RRL
controllers that (as one would guess) required different values for NR_SECTORS.
This caused me no end of trouble until I got kernels built with the correct
values for each machine.

One nice thing about shoelace.  If you boot from the kernel pieces, ie fs, mm
and kernel, you can quickly test this out by compiling xt_wini with 
-DNR_SECTORS=25 or 26 and relinking the kernel.
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