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From: brian@trantext.UUCP (Brian Bainter)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix on ibm pc clones
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Date: 29 Dec 89 02:44:37 GMT
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jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

>Also, RLL has always been a pain to implement, so if you can stay away from
>RLL controllers, all the better.

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).  I may be an
exception (I don't think I am that much) but I have been using MINIX with
my ADAPTEC RLL controller for some time now.  I even got it up with version
1.1 of MINIX.  It wasn't really that hard once I found out how many sectors
there were per track on the thing.

Good Luck,
-- 
Brian R. Bainter  KA7TXA
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