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From: eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: install and backup minix
Summary: Not formatted at all !!
Message-ID: <1914@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Dec 90 14:42:02 GMT
References: <38822@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Dec14.014834.14640@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>
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In article <1990Dec14.014834.14640@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>, gchamby@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Greg Chamby) writes:
> 
> Brian Wilson writes:
> 
> >The disks we got were not formatted on all 80 tracks, therefore the
> >standard ms-dos diskcopy would not work. Also, the boot block on the boot
> >disks makes it uncopyable with diskcopy.

The MINIX Centre has recently seen several MINIX-PC 1.5s from P-H where some
of the disks aren't formatted at all !!  Completely blank.  This seems to only
afflict the 3.5" disks, not 5.25".

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