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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Miniscribe drive - quick advice
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Date: 25 Jul 89 20:19:00 GMT
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In article <317@csense.UUCP> bote@csense.UUCP (John Boteler) writes:

| 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.

  Is this a special version of Xenix? My impression was that Xenix only
went to 1024 cylinders. Or have you set your controller to do some
mapping so that the disk looks like more {heads,sectors} and fewer
cylinders?
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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