Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!skypod!marc
From: marc@skypod.uucp (Marc Fournier)
Subject: fdisk, head, cylinders and blocks
Message-ID: <1991May15.014616.10163@skypod.uucp>
Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Wed, 15 May 91 01:46:16 GMT

Hi Folks...

	New question for the guru's out there...

	How do I change the kernel to accept 5 heads instead of 4?  The
Hard drive that I'm using has, obviously, 5 heads, but when trying to
do a mkfs on a partition, I get an error if I try and go about 1895 blocks
when the partition should hold about 19000 blocks.  A friend of mine told
me that the problem should be because wini.c is set up for 4 heads and
not 5, but I can't find any variable that I can change from 4 to 5.

	Anyone have any ideas?

thanks...


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