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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 21:26:01 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199506181918.FAA04907@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 19, 95 05:18:08 am
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That explains a lot..thanks..

-Guido

Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >> >is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry
> >> >reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs...
> 
> >This is waht 2.0R thought of it:
> 
> >sd2: 2006MB (4108600 total sec), 3053 cyl, 12 head, 112 sec, bytes/sec 512
> 
> 2.0R worked because it didn't insist on a valid geometry (sec < 64) and the
> invalid geometry happened not to be used (only one partition starting on
> the first track).
> 
> Bruce
>