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From: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wini Driver for OMTI 30M HD, with ST238.
Message-ID: <403@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 17:15:28 GMT
References: <389@uvicctr.UUCP> <1783@akgua.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <1783@akgua.ATT.COM> brb@akgua.ATT.COM (Brian R. Bainter) writes:
>From article <389@uvicctr.UUCP>, by sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner):
>> 
>>    Hello, Now that Summer is here, I have time to work on getting
>> Minix going on my new HardDrive.  The standard driver (Version 1.1)
>> gives me "Unrecoverable read errors" on what seems like random sectors

>>                       S. John Banner

>you will have to do some checking to get the sectors per track. It might be a
>good idea to do this anyway. When I asked a dealer what the sectors per track
>for my controller was, he said that it was either 25 or 26 and that it depended
>pretty much on the controller.
>
>		Good Lock,
>
>		    Brian R. Bainter

Thanks to all those of you who sent suggestions, I got it working last
night, the problem was apparently that I was using 25 sectors per track,
and I should have been using 26 (the responses here were the first to
mention that it might require 26, not 25, and I am not a hardware type,
so ...  :-).  Thanks again to everyone who helped,

			  sjb.