Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RLL vs IDE
Message-ID: <2122@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:31:43 GMT
References: <40552@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <48831@bigtex.cactus.org> <90290.084946PICHER@MAINE.BITNET>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <90290.084946PICHER@MAINE.BITNET> PICHER@MAINE.BITNET (Michael W. Picher) writes:

| As I recall, the problem with Unix and varients is that they need
| a certain number of SPT.  

  You have that about 180 degrees off. MS-DOS uses the BIOS and doesn't
like drives not in the table. Most versions of UNIX, certainly the 386
and all SCO versions, allow you to configure the drive at install time,
and use whatever the actual values happen to be.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me