Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cyclops!csense!bote From: bote@csense.UUCP (John Boteler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Miniscribe drive - quick advice Message-ID: <317@csense.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 89 03:26:47 GMT References: <4564@tank.uchicago.edu> Organization: Common Sense Computing, McLean Va Lines: 37 From article <4564@tank.uchicago.edu>, by goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz): > I have a machine on order I intend to run Xenix on. It > will be coming with a 150 meg Miniscribe drive with a WD > 1007 ESDI controller. No problem with the controller. > However, will that drive have too many cylinders to run > properly and effectively under Xenix along with MS-DOS? Actually there may be a problem with the controller, indirectly. I have found that the only Western Digital controller that hasn't given me some amount of grief is the WD1006VSR2 track buffered, etc. ST-506 interface RLL controller. For all other needs I have found the DTC line of controllers to be exemplary. The DTC firmware does not flinch when you tell it your hard disk has more than 1024 cylinders and has provisions for attaching removable devices 3 and 4 on the rear apron of the card. I am posting this article using a 386 system with a 1166 cylinder Priam hard disk drive, partitioned into 33MB DOS and the rest for Xenix. I guess it is working. Note: this is an ST-506 interface, but the DTC6280 utilizes ESDI. If this helps, here is the output of my fdisk 'Display partition' option: +-------------+----------+---------+----------+--------+---------+ | Partition | Status | Type | Start | End | Size | +-------------+----------+---------+----------+--------+---------+ | 1 | Inactive | DOS | 1 | 2519 | 2519 | | 2 | Active | XENIX | 2527 | 8154 | 5628 | +-------------+----------+---------+----------+--------+---------+ Hope this helps, you and others. -- Bote uunet!cyclops!csense!bote {mimsy,sundc}!{prometheus,hqda-ai}!media!cyclops!csense!bote