[comp.os.minix] problem reading large TOS partitions

7103_300@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (12/05/88)

I've run into a curious situation when using the "tos" program supplied
with Minix-ST to read files from the hard disk.  Firstly, "tos" wouldn't
even look at the hard disk (a Megafile 30) because the sectors per track
field of the boot sector was 0. This was easily enough fixed. Now I can
read one of my TOS partitions (the smaller one). However, when I try
to read the larger one, the process receives a floating point exception and
dies. I can't find any use of floating point numbers in the code. What
gives? 

PS: I realize that the supplied "tos" program is buggy; I have already
applied the patches posted by H.C. Johnson (thanks!).
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