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From: akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe 3085 with Xenix ?
Keywords: config opinion
Message-ID: <[253f109f:179.1]comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 12:35:10 GMT
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>upgrade to a 20mhz 386 clone. Since I'd like to interchange various hardware
>between the 286 and 386, I decided to go for a 3085 71 meg Miniscribe with
>a WD1006 controller. Since the 3085 has over 1024 Cyl, does anybody know
>of any existing problems with 286 or 386 Xenix/Unix. We are still talking
>MFM here, so past postings on the subject of ESDI >1024 may not apply.
 
I'm running a 6085 on one of these machines with the WD1006-SR2 (1:1 RLL)
under SCO 2.3.2 without problems.  How many cylinders on the 3085?