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From: danson@udel.edu (Douglas Anson)
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Subject: 386 MINIX and IDE hard drives..
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Date: 15 Mar 91 15:09:40 GMT
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Hello!

Has anyone using 386 Minix encountered difficulty when using an IDE drive?
I found that mkfs won't produce a file system to completely use a partition.
(i.e. make a partition containing 'x' blocks but mkfs only allows a file
system to be installed of size 'y' blocks where 'y' << 'x'.   { '<<' meaning
much smaller than}).  BTW, my hard drive is an 120 meg IDE (14 heads...)
I am thinking that maybe at_wini.c does not have the correct configuration
of the drive.  Any help/comments would be greatly appreciated!

cheers!
Doug Anson
danson@udel.edu
Univ. of Del.