flong@sdsu.UUCP (Fred J. E. Long) (06/04/89)
Is there a good reason why fsck.c and xt_wini.c both use 17 as the number of sectors per track on a hard disk? Is it too much of a hassle to find out the exact number (like BIOS does)? As is, the normal kernel works well enough for me to copy the sources to my first MINIX partition, recompile for 25 sectors per track, and build a new kernel. For some reason trying to mkfs the 2nd partition with the old kernel does not do much at all (so says Norton Utilities). As long as I don't try to fix all the errors that fsck reports, I can build a correct kernel. So I have a working kernel now, but the hard-coding of 17 sectors per track has caused a lot of anguish. Can real IBM XT's ONLY have hard disks with 17 sectors per track? (I'm using a Leading Edge PC with a 31MB hard disk, and ps_wini and at_wini did not work.) --fjel -- Fred J. E. Long San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92093 ARPA: flong%midgard@ucscc.ucsc.edu UUCP: ...!ucsd!sdsu!flong