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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ST4096 on a 6Mz AT
Message-ID: <1908@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 14:26:43 GMT
References: <609@fred.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <609@fred.UUCP> bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras) writes:
| I read in an article in comp.sys.ibm.pc that an ST4096 isn't a supported
| by the IBM-AT bios, so [ ... ]

  Pick a disk config which has the right number of heads to boot.
Alternatively you can use one of the special packages to low level
format (if you need it). Xenix allows you to set the disk params when
you install, so there's no problem with *any* size disk, except getting
it to boot.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon