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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Hardcards & Minix 1.5.10
Message-ID: <8255@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Nov 90 16:23:41 GMT
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In article <memo.28535@cix.uucp> jeremiah@compulink.co.uk (Jonathan Allen) writes:
>Having just got vanilla PH 1.5/PC out of the box, I find it doesn't
>work with my machine.  The bios_wini works perfectly, if a little
>slowly, but xt_wini doesn't get past block 69 of /dev/hd0 in the 'dd' 
>command.  /dev/hd2 & 3 (at cylinder 256 and 750-ish respectively)
>fail immediately.
The xt_wini driver assumes you have an XT disk, i.e. 4 surfaces per cylinder
and 17 sectors per track.  4 x 17 = 68.  When you go beyond that, i.e. 69
bad things happen.  I think you should try adjusting the number of sectors
and give that a try.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)