walker@xanth.UUCP (Mike Walker) (04/21/87)
I am using an IBM PC with 3 floppies, and as far as I can tell, in order to
actually use the third floppy under Minix, I will need to recompile the kernel.
Has anyone else done this, and if so, is the only change I need in the code
at line 2502 (floppy.c) where they #define the number of drives as 2? Any help
on this would be welcome.
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Michael D. Walker UUCP: walker@xanth.UUCP
Old Dominion University or: {seismo,harvard,sun,hoptoad}!xanth!walkerast@botter.UUCP (04/22/87)
In article <858@xanth.UUCP> walker@xanth.UUCP (Mike Walker) writes: >I am using an IBM PC with 3 floppies, and as far as I can tell, in order to >actually use the third floppy under Minix, I will need to recompile the kernel. >Has anyone else done this, and if so, is the only change I need in the code >at line 2502 (floppy.c) where they #define the number of drives as 2? Any help >on this would be welcome. > I believe that this is the only change you need to make in the kernel, but I have never tried it either. You also have to create a special file /dev/fd2. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)