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From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: XENIX 2.2.3 and >1024 h.d. cylinders: possible?
Keywords: xenix, hard disk, cylinders, ESDI
Message-ID: <812@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:38:19 GMT
References: <13569@well.UUCP> <751@pmafire.UUCP> <5563@seac.UUCP>
Reply-To: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull)
Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan
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In article <5563@seac.UUCP> wain@seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson) writes:
>SCO is quite clear that SCO UNIX 3.2 does not support greater than 
>1024 cylinders. 

SCO, is this really true?  Why would you throw away something as nice
as the ability to specify > 1024 cylinders like you can in 2.3.x?

Ross, could you clear this up for all of us?  

-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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