Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!mimsy!jds From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: minix on hard drive Message-ID: <13696@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 88 18:27:49 GMT References: <1484@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva) Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science Lines: 18 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."