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From: Dickson@pco-multics.hbi.honeywell.com (Paul Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Still problems with Turbo C & Minix
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Date: 20 May 89 07:20:37 GMT
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The problem is not with Turbo C, but with MS-DOS.  If the format
information is unavailble for a disk in a drive, the MS-DOS assumes that
it is the original MS-DOS format for PCs, which was single sided.  The
only way around this it either rewrite build to use BIOS calls or always
reformat the disk before writing a MINIX image.  Fcrmatting doesn't take
much time, so no one has fixed build.

Kevin and I, at one time, had a program that would write the first
couple of sectors on to the floppy so we wouldn't have to always
reformat the disk to get the info on sector one.  I don't remember why
we stopped doing this...

          -Paul Dickson

     taurus!dickson @ asuvax.asu.edu