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From: chao@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Chia-Chi Chao)
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Subject: Re: Commonly Asked Minix Questions
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Date: 2 Feb 91 00:56:37 GMT
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In article <CAQ1mar1991@plains.nodak.edu> overby@plains.nodak.edu (Glen Overby) writes:
>6.  MINIX doesn't work with my hard disk.
>There are many potential sources of this.  Several are:
>
>You are running an RLL controler.  You must  change  "NR_SECTORS"
>in the configuration file, <minix/config.h> from 17 (standard for
>MFM controllers) to 25 (Adaptect controlers) or 26 (Western Digi-
>tal and others).

I assume that the fix is for 1.5 only, because I don't see the config.h file in
version 1.2.  Is it possible to use RLL (26) controller with Minix 1.2?  The
class I am taking uses 1.2, so using other versions is not possible.  Thanks.
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Chia-Chi Chao     chao@cs.ucla.edu   ..!ucbvax!cs.ucla.edu!chao