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Subject: Re: HELP -with making boot disk-xt clone-Seagate 238-RRL
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Date: 24 Apr 91 18:40:06 GMT
References: <5541@mindlink.bc.ca>
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In article <5541@mindlink.bc.ca>, Ed_Rodda@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Rodda) wrote:
> I have a xt clone c/w a 32M Seagate 238R hard drive configured as RRL.
> All my attempts to use xt_wini.c to produce a bootable disk have failed.
> Would someone please e-mail me the changes to config.h and xt_wini.c to
> make this work.

RLL drives need 25, 26, 27 or 31 sectors per track, instead of the
"standard" 17 for MFM drives.  That's one..

The second problem is (you guessed it..) the controller board.  If
you have a Seagate ST11-R RLL controller, I can send you my driver
for it.  There is also a driver for the Adaptect 2732 board, I
believe.

> I am assuming that I am doing something wrong, however, if somebody has
> discovered that it is necessary to hard code xt_wini, then I would
> appreciate that info. This probably was a minix topic around ver. 1.0.
Yes, and it still is.  As read in some book: "The nice thing about
standards is, that there are so many to choose from"... :-)

Fred