n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) (02/03/89)
In article <532@ubc-cs.UUCP> fraga@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Eric Fraga) writes: < other stuff deleted > > >On a related note, is it possible to have Minix/ST use anything >more than 9/80? > On the normal distribution this is not possible. There has been a fix to comp.os.minix which made it possible to use any format. I have forgotten the name of the sender; when anybody is interested i can mail / send him a pointer. Klamer. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Klamer Schutte mcvax!nikhefh!n62 n62@nikhefh.hep.nl
ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) (02/08/89)
The danger is that you may damage the drive mechanism in some cases by using more than 80 tracks. As far as extra sectors go, the problems occur when exchanging disks with different machines - some machines just can't read 11 sector per track disks. Dave