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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC Minix demo (questions)
Keywords: demo, 360k/1.2MB drives, 720k/1.44MB, help!
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Date: 7 Mar 91 18:57:43 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.130127.23132@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> taylor-d@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Douglas Taylor) writes:
>
>I just installed the Minix demo on my machine (CompuAdd 286-10) as follows:
>
>1.  Formatted 360K disk in my 360K drive (drive B:)
>2.  Copied demo file to the disk (drive C: -> drive B:) using rawrite.exe
>3.  Put disk in drive A: (1.2 M) and rebooted.
>
>I haven't done much more than boot up the system and peek at the various
>directories, but so far I have had no problems whatsoever.

OK, I've tried this. I went to an old XT we have lying around with
360K drives. Formatted a disk on the 360K, rawrite to the disk, ran
(rebooted) it on the XT and pow, she works! So I grab the disk,
rushed over to my 386, put it into my 1.2Mb drive a:, rebooted,
no go. As with before, it dies after I press the "=". The cursor
moves to the next line, the next key I press reboots. That's strange
because I've been using my 1.2Mb for 360K disk for a good 3 years
(in fact, 90% of the disks we have are 360K. A bunch of the machines
in our department are still XTs. I only use 1.2Mb for backups. And
even then, I use 1.44Mb more than 1.2Mb) Oh well, Minix is not DOS
so maybe 360K on a 1.2Mb with Minix is a no go. But the disk works
on a true 360K though. Better figure out a work around because I
suspect most new systems people are puchaseing (386s, 486s) will have
a 1.2Mb instead of a 369K floppy drive.

Thomas.