Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!list-injector From: root@contact.uucp (Martin Loeffler) Newsgroups: can.usrgroup Subject: contact is back up! Message-ID: <8911191254.AA00371@contact.UUCP> Date: 19 Nov 89 17:54:11 GMT Reply-To: Martin Loeffler Distribution: ont Lines: 41 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Ok, this weekend I spent with my 386, SCO Xenix, 71 meg miniscribe drive, 85 meg maxtor drive, an RLL controller card, and an MFM controller card. A few things: 1) /usr/spool isn't mounted until *after* the system tries to find /usr/spool/cron/crontabs, so cron aborts. I've started it by hand, so don't fire up any more (unless it's died). What I want to know, is what are the other files executed at startup, besides /etc/rc. I know init is fairly early and seems to control spawning of gettys, but beyond that I don't know if there are any text files that we can edit. Idealy, I'd like to put cron in after the /etc/default/checklist checking command. As is, I'll put cron in /etc/rc and live with the error messages. 2) We can't get full drive space unless I can mount one drive on the RLL controller and the other on the MFM controller. My miniscribe works very poorly on the RLL.. random errors appear constantly. What I'd like to know, is if anyone has ever tested SCO's claim that 2 controller cards *are* supported (this is said in the release notes. In the manual they deny this...). I suspect I have to change the memory adresses of the cards, but I don't even think that an AT will support 2 controllers. Give me reason to think it can be done before I start to rip it apart again :) 3) Both the Maxtor and the Miniscribe are rated at 1024 cyls x 8 heads x 17 tracks. However, one clamis to be 71 meg, the other 85. An ideas? I don't have any manuals for either, so there may be a possibility that the maxtor has more heads/cyls. If anyone has a largish maxtor (sorry the model number is inside the case and I don't want to rip it apart right now.. if you ask, I'll open it though) can they let me know if they think my specs are wrong? It's an external drive in a case about twice as long as it is high/wide (full height device). It comes with it's own fan and power supply. Thanks for your attention. -- "Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond it's own immediate boundaries" - J.B.S. Haldane Eisen D. Guard: eisen@contact.uucp (Martin Loeffler) "No Compromise No Deal"