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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Block special file sizes
Message-ID: <3424@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 88 12:33:08 GMT
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I've had problems with sizes on block special devices when I got my Minix 1.1.
My mkfs didn't work on my hard disk.

Essentially I patched  fs to issue read/write requests to the device driver and
let it fail instead of detetecting seek offsets with respect to block special
sizes (which I'm not sure how fs got them in the first place).

I'm not convinced the problem has been resolved to my satisfaction.  I'll see
what Andy's doing in 1.3.

I agree the sizes on block special devices aren't very useful (and if anything
seemed to cause problems).

marty
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