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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: XENIX 2.2.3 and >1024 h.d. cylinders: possible?
Message-ID: <4593@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 20:35:27 GMT
References: <5563@seac.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <5563@seac.UUCP>, wain@seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson) says:
> Keywords: xenix, hard disk, cylinders, ESDI
> 
> If it don't work, it's the manufacturers problem, not SCO's. After all,
> which comes first, hardware selection, or software selection.

For people migrating up from a DOS machine with a big disk to XENIX it's
hardware selection.....

Why did the 1024 limit start? Well, the MSDOS defined partition table
layout only allows 10bit cylinder numbers. So I could see if the
machine was going to have DOS and XENIX partitions using the disk to
stick with the MSDOS partition table layout. However, if someone wnated
a XENIX only machine shouldn't XENIX be easily able to do its own
hard disk boot sector to handle a partition table layout that is
different? And since XENIX is contained within one physical partition
that then has logical partitions....

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