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From: aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu (Albert S Woodhull)
Subject: Re: Does Minix work on hard drives >1024 with LBA?
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 04:41:26 GMT
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On Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:15:10 GMT Arthur D. Jerijian
(jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu) wrote in comp.os.minix:

: 	I am going to take an operating systems class in about a
: month, and I need to know if Minix (1.5.x or greater) will work
: on my machine.  I have a Pentium 100 with a PCI bus and an Intel
: Triton chipset.  My hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar 1.2GB
: EIDE hard drive with my BIOS's LBA turned on.  I used Linux to
: format a 50MB Minix partition which Minix will reside on.  Will
: Minix work?

There are two questions here: will it work on the Pentium and will it
work on the big hard drive. 

I haven't heard of any reports of Minix *not* working on Pentiums, and
I am sure there are enough out there that there would be reports.

As to the big hard drive, I think Minix 1.5 won't know how to handle
it, but Minix 1.7 should be OK. There may be one small problem, and
that is booting, which uses the ROM BIOS. If the root partition is not
within the first 1023 cylinders there will be a problem. Once Minix
itself is running it should be able to mount a partition anywhere on
the disk.

--
Albert S. Woodhull, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu
woodhull@shaysnet.com
413-549-2962

