jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (09/22/88)
Hi, I noticed a listing of machines that minix has been tested, and shown to run on. I have an XT-clone and the listing stated that minix would run using a 10 meg hard drive. Does this imply that it will ONLY run on a 10 meg hard drive, PERIOD (as tested) or that it can only USE 10 meg of any size drive ? Thanks, Jeff P.S. Has anyone gotten minix up and running on a sperry AT compatible? -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva) (09/23/88)
jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: > ... I have an XT-clone and > the listing stated that minix would run using a 10 meg > hard drive. Does this imply that it will ONLY run > on a 10 meg hard drive, PERIOD (as tested) or that > it can only USE 10 meg of any size drive ? I have a 20 meg Minix partition on my disk. I don't recall for sure but I think Minix can go up to 64M (it seems right - 65536 zones) with zone size = block size = 1K. I know that in theory you can make the zone size a multiple of the block size to support very large disks, but I'm not sure if anyone has actually tried this. - Jaime ---------------------------------------------------------------------- usenet: uunet!mimsy!jds James da Silva internet: jds@mimsy.umd.edu "Stand on each other's shoulders, not on each other's toes."
jonathan@ism780c.isc.com (Jonathan C. Broome) (09/24/88)
In article <13696@mimsy.UUCP> jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
: I have a 20 meg Minix partition on my disk. I don't recall for sure but I
: think Minix can go up to 64M (it seems right - 65536 zones) with zone size =
: block size = 1K. I know that in theory you can make the zone size a multiple
: of the block size to support very large disks, but I'm not sure if anyone has
: actually tried this.
I have tried larger partitions, still 1K zone size, and found that fsck & fs
were unhappy with > 27500 blocks per filesystem. One of these days I'll
investigate -- with a partition of 80 MB allocated, I'd like to be able to use
more of it! I'm also working on 'soft partitioning', to allow using only one
of the four (precious few) "hard" partitions that the BIOS knows about,
splitting it into (currently) up to 8 filesystems. It will also support bad
sector remapping.
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