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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Large disks with DOS/Xenix
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Date: 11 Jul 89 18:11:23 GMT
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In article <1710@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:

| 	I am concerned that I will not be able to do this, because
| Xenix appears to only allow one DOS partition on a drive, and I am
| afraid that partition may be limited to 32 Mbyte.  Has anyone put
| a large (100 Mbyte) DOS partition on the same drive as Xenix? Or put
| multiple 32 Mbyte partitions.  If I cannot use a single drive for
| both Xenix and DOS as I wish, I may be better off getting 2 150 Mbyte
| drives.

  Xenix will allow about anything, but it only seems to use one
partition per drive, and that must be as follows:
	1. a "primary DOS partition"
	2. size <= 32MB
	3. starting at the beginning (cylinder 0) of the disk

  You can have other DOS partitions, but Xenix probably won't use them.
You might want to have a small 5-10MB primary DOS partition and then a
big one so you could use the primary as a buffer.

  Note: when running DOS partitions > 32MB you get a larger cluster size
and every file takes up more space. If you don't have large files you
may be happier with several small partitions.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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