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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Does Minix eat disk drives?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 06:34:38 GMT
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In article <1772@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
>So...I think...MINIX EATS DISK FLOPPY DISK DRIVES!!!

I agree with John.  I'm not suprised that he has had disk failures - if
he has booted with the standard bootblok.s distributed with Minix.  This
bootblok.s will beat your floppy drive to death.

The solution is to apply my "configuration" and separate bootblok.s
files.  Your disk won't be beaten to death upon boot-up, and booting
will also be noticably faster.  I just posted this configuration stuff
a few minutes ago (for at least the second time).

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