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From: overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: DOS and Minix Partitions
Message-ID: <10233@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 04:36:59 GMT
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In article <1217@opus.NMSU.Edu> kduling@nmsu.edu (Kevin Duling) writes:
>  I'm trying to run Minix 1.5 on a Tandy 1000 SX (8088 processor) with a 32 Meg
>Seagate 138R drive that has a Super Bios II formatter (Copywrite Western 

You have to enable the AUTO_BIOS option of both xt_wini and xt2_wini (this
option should be set in <minix/conf.h> around line 40-something) and the
controler should work like a charm (mine does).

Your problem comes from the WD controler writing the disk geometry on the
primary boot sector, just in front of the partition table.  Without
AUTO_BIOS set, both wini drivers assume that they should retrieve parameters
out of ROM, where there are some conservative parameters for 10MB drives.
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