boot@donald.osf.org (Bruce Bauman) (06/24/91)
I'm currently running Minix-386, and am about to upgrade from a normal (MFM) disk to a large ESDI disk. I vaguely remember someone posting an article saying that I could just use the at_wini driver, and redefine N_SECTORS appropriately. Is there anything special I need to know? Are there any special jumper settings needed on the controller (it's a WD-1007 FD/FD controller). Obviously, bios_wini isn't an option because I'm running in protected mode. Thanks. -- Bruce Bauman email: boot@osf.org phone: 617-621-7205 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Not really a programmer, but I play one on TV
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) (06/25/91)
In article <BOOT.91Jun24090257@donald.osf.org> boot@osf.org writes: > >I'm currently running Minix-386, and am about to upgrade from a normal >(MFM) disk to a large ESDI disk. I vaguely remember someone posting an >article saying that I could just use the at_wini driver, and redefine >N_SECTORS appropriately. Is there anything special I need to know? Are >there any special jumper settings needed on the controller (it's a >WD-1007 FD/FD controller). > I run Minix-386 with a 330 megabyte ESDI disk, and did not have to change one blessed thing. Runs fine. (Well, except for dosread/write not liking the hd - I just use a 1.2 meg floppy for that). -- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 "Complete solitude is a torment which not even Hell threatens."
boot@donald.osf.org (Bruce Bauman) (06/26/91)
To summarize, I've gotten several responses of the form: "I have a 330 MB ESDI drive, and it works just fine with the at_wini driver" I haven't received my drive yet, so I can't personally verify this, but I suspect it's true. I'm not sure if the driver figures out the correct parameters or if the controller pretends to look like an MFM disk, but I'm not sure it matters. -- Bruce Bauman email: boot@osf.org phone: 617-621-7205 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142