nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) (01/02/91)
I don't have any proof that it does, other than the fact that I have just lost my THIRD 1.2 meg drive on the system that I use primarily for Minix. On another system which is used about 99.9% for MS-DOS, I have never lost a disk drive. So...I think...MINIX EATS DISK FLOPPY DISK DRIVES!!! -- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 WB4LOQ (why? I dunno....everyone else seems to be doing it. _._)
kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (01/06/91)
In article <1772@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes: >So...I think...MINIX EATS DISK FLOPPY DISK DRIVES!!! I agree with John. I'm not suprised that he has had disk failures - if he has booted with the standard bootblok.s distributed with Minix. This bootblok.s will beat your floppy drive to death. The solution is to apply my "configuration" and separate bootblok.s files. Your disk won't be beaten to death upon boot-up, and booting will also be noticably faster. I just posted this configuration stuff a few minutes ago (for at least the second time). -- favourite oxymorons: student athlete, military justice, mercy killing Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh