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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: minix on ibm pc clones
Message-ID: <351@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 16:03:54 GMT
References: <981@crash.cts.com> <284@trantext.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <284@trantext.UUCP> brian@trantext.UUCP (Brian Bainter) writes:

| John may be correct for a few RLL controllers, but all of those that I have
| worked with will work fine if you change the sectors per track in the
| program areas that use it (specifically the driver and fsck).  

  Just so. The Western Digital RLL *and ESDI* controllers look just like
the standard MFM model, other than the number of sectors per track. I'm
told that the Perstor 180 (31 sector) and 200 (34 sector) units are that
way, too. The one which gets nasty is SCSI.
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