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From: ast@botter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Adding a 3rd floppy
Message-ID: <1147@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 06:30:37 EST
Article-I.D.: botter.1147
Posted: Wed Apr 22 06:30:37 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Apr-87 02:57:09 EST
References: <858@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: Minix PC help

In article <858@xanth.UUCP> walker@xanth.UUCP (Mike Walker) writes:
>I am using an IBM PC with 3 floppies, and as far as I can tell, in order to
>actually use the third floppy under Minix, I will need to recompile the kernel.
>Has anyone else done this, and if so, is the only change I need in the code
>at line 2502 (floppy.c) where they #define the number of drives as 2? Any help
>on this would be welcome.
>
I believe that this is the only change you need to make in the kernel, but I
have never tried it either.  You also have to create a special file /dev/fd2.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)