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From: marc@skypod.guild.org (Marc Fournier)
Subject: Re:  fdisk, head, cylinders and blocks
Message-ID: <1991May22.050418.189@skypod.guild.org>
Organization: Skypod Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario
References: <53806@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 May 91 05:04:18 GMT

In article <53806@nigel.ee.udel.edu> amcintos@savanna-emh1.army.mil (Alfred C. McIntosh Jr.) writes:
>You have to recompile xtwini or atwini, corrected for the correct number of disk he
>disk heads. Then, compile and relink the kernel. - should work.

Hi Folks...

	I'm the guy that originally asked this question.  First of all, I would
like to thank the guys who answered telling me that I had to do an 
fdisk -h5 -s17 /dev/hdx to get it to work...it doesn't work but it gave me
an idea to try out.

	If anyone ever has this trouble again, don't go looking through
atwini or xtwini, you will be wasting your time..there isn't anything in
there.  Go directly to the fdisk.c source and change NHEAD in there.  That
is the only place that I could find any reference to HEADs at all.  I wouldn't
have been able to find it without two guys suggesting the fdisk -h -s /dev/hdx
solution, so I have them to thank.

	As for the xtwini and atwini solutions...somebody want to tell
me what system that is on, because I can't find it.

	By the way, I really enjoy minix...thanks for the help on any of
the questions that I've asked in the past and thanks for the many more that
I'll ask in the future...

Till then...this was me...


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