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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Optical disk for a unix-pc, is it possible?
Message-ID: <617@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 09:00:48 GMT
References: <614@mbph.UUCP> <1037@icus.islp.ny.us> <1226@becker.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Distribution: unix-pc
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In article <1226@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <1037@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>|[...]
>	If a WD2010 controller is used, then one can
>	use up to 2048 cylinders, for 134,217,728
>	bytes, though I've never seen a ST506/MFM
>	drive with that many cylinders.

The actual limit with the WD2010 is (from /usr/include/gdisk.h):
gdisk.h:#define HDMAXCYL	1400	/* support a maximum of 1400 cylinders */
This is a compiled into the kernel value, we can't change it.


John
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