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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: stupid disk question
Keywords: hard disk
Message-ID: <2564@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 13 Mar 90 21:14:19 GMT
References: <23396@usc.edu>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <23396@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>Will a Seagate 4096 80 Mbyte hard drive with a Western Digital WD1003
>MFM controller work on an AT system?  Can you use the high end of the
>disk (above 65k)?

I have an 80M Microscience drive (better?) and an NCL controller (worse?).
These work fine.

The Minix partition should work anywhere on the disk. In 1.5.5 64M partitions
should work. Mine is at the high end of the 80M and even crosses the 1024-
cylinder boundary.
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