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From: smagt@cs.vu.nl (Smagt v der PPP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: fsck fix to check the hard-disk
Keywords: MINIX
Message-ID: <1179@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 22 Jan 88 12:21:43 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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I haven't read MINIX-news for some time, so possibly I'm telling
something everybody knows already.
   Fsck seemed not to be able to check my (XT-) hard-disk, so
I tried to find out what was wrong and found that the number
of sectors per cylinders seemed to be assigned wrongly (as 
opposed to version 1.0 MINIX.) Here's what I've done:

diff old_fsck.c new_fsck.c:
1867c1867
<			cylsiz = 85;	/* sectors per cylinder */
---
>			cylsiz = 68;	/* sectors per cylinder */

i.e. I reset the number of sectors per cylinder to the 1.0 version
value. Why was it set to 85? There must be some reason, I'm afraid.

Hoping to astonish the world.