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From: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: /dev/hd5
Keywords: Minix-ST, use of /dev/hd5 as Minix-Filesystem
Message-ID: <219@nlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 21:12:00 GMT
References: <689@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Organization: Philips Research Geldrop
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In article <689@sbsvax.UUCP> roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) writes:
>My proposed solution is to use minor 5 to address the whole disk without sector
>0. You have still access to this sector via minor 0.

I do not agree. Minor 5 is supposed to access the whole disk.
You can already do what you want to do by allocating the whole disk
minus sector 0 as the first and only partition.
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Johan W. Stevenson	johan@pcg.philips.nl		Philips Research