SHARKEY@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Scott A. Sharkey) (06/08/90)
Well, I got my IDE drive (an Austin PC 386SX with an Imprimis 100MB hard disk) working under Minix 1.3. I had to hard-code the heads/sectors stuff, as Bruce Evans told me that wasn't fixed til 1.5. Now I'm having problems with large disk partitions. I am gonna move my ram disk to Extended memory, and expand the buffer cache to offset the problem with larger file systems. Can I just change NR_BUFS in fs/const.h? Is there anything else that needs changed? Also, Bruce told me that he "fixed" the limits on file systems to be 65K. How and where can I find these fixes? He also told me that 1.3 had a bug in counting buffers allocated to inodes and zone maps twice, but I can't find it in fs/mount.c. Is there somewhere else to look to fix that? Finally, I would have just asked Bruce, but my mailer says there's no such place as runxtsa.runx.oz.au. Is there another address for Bruce? Thanks -Scott