dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Danny Bielik) (05/15/91)
As you may remember (in the last episode) I was having trouble getting fdisk to recognise my RLL controlled Miniscribe (with no model number). I tried looking in config.h for a NR_SECTORS definition, as described in the latest FAQ's and there was none. So I put one there. No luck. Then I came across it in floppy.c (kernel/). Changed it from 0x11 to 25 ( whatever that is in Hex). Nothing. Tried another sugghestion from George Patapis here at Big Mac. dosread /dev/ hd0 > null. It wouldn't recognise it, since dosread does not recognise standard device names, for some reason, so I used dosread c > null. It came to a standstill just as fdisk had done, I could hit del and dosread would vanish from the process table, but I coudn't resurrect a shell. I have since given up. Moral: don't mess around with RLL. It's not worth the hair loss! ******************************************************************************* * Danny Bielik * * dbielik@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au * * Macquarie University - Sydney Australia * * Phone (W) +61-2-212-6699 Fax +61-2-281-7394 * *******************************************************************************