Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!tuhhco!mt1hh!klaus
From: klaus@mt1hh.UUCP (Klaus Kleemann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Miniscribe 3085 & *nix
Message-ID: <751@mt1hh.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 11:28:32 GMT
References: <10895@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: TU Hamburg-Harburg, Meerestechnik I
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From article <10895@dasys1.UUCP>, by hadji@dasys1.UUCP (Toby A David):
> ... Since I'd like to interchange hardware between the
> 286 and 386, I decided to go for a 3085 71 meg Miniscribe with a WD1006. 
> Does anybody know of any existing problems with 286 or 386 Xenix/Unix and the
> >1024 Cyl of the 3085, previous postings on the subject seemed to be concerned
> with ESDI and not MFM.
...
> Toby

Hi, 
few days ago I installed exactly that combination here under
XENIX-286 2.2.1, it's working fine.
The disks were formatted with speedstore, installed as type 19
(1024 cyl. 7 heads) and during the XENIX-installation the maxtrack
set to 1169.

Klaus
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