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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Does Minix eat floppy disk drives?
Message-ID: <2788f596.3895@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 91 22:26:30 GMT
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In an article ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) wrote:
>I don't know if I would say that MINIX doesn't eat disk drives.
>I think my 1.2M at work was damaged some by booting MINIX
>with 360K disks.  I don't like the check for a 720K disk,
>which will bang the heads 24 times in succession if you are booting from a
>360K disk.  (Bootblok tries to seek out to track 64 in an attempt
>to find out if you've got a 720K boot disk)

If this is true, that it actually hits the stop, that could be enough to
have knocked it out of line enough that it it won't boot from 1.2mb floppies,
but it still is close enough for 360k floppies.

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