[comp.sys.atari.st] Minix-ST floppy formats

n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) (02/03/89)

In article <532@ubc-cs.UUCP> fraga@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Eric Fraga) writes:
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>On a related note, is it possible to have Minix/ST use anything
>more than 9/80?
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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.
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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