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From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of mkfs in Amiga Minix
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Date: 13 Feb 91 10:03:03 GMT
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tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna) writes:
>Could you make diffs/sources for the floppy driver changes ONLY
>availible? I would really like to have reliable floppy access,
>but because there are no sources included with latest_aminix.lzh
>and because of either 020/hard disk icomptatibility with my
>system, I can't use the supplied minix.img. I realize the hard

Good point, other people have complained about it as well. We will
try to produce YANAMV (yet another new amiga minix version) ASAP,
which will let you boot minix, even if it doesn't work with your
harddisk. I think that that's better than having two versions, one
with the harddisk task, and one without.

>disk driver is still in beta, but the floppy changes are "done",
>right? At the very least, floppy reliability can't get any WORSE
>than it is now [1/2 :-)]

I sure hope so! We will produce the source/diffs for our changes as well,
as soon as we're satisfied with them.

Regards,

	Steven Reiz