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From: robinro@bomber.ism.isc.com (Robin Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars
Keywords: sco unix interactive wars
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Date: 27 Dec 90 19:15:54 GMT
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tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

>Anyway, memory is so damn cheap these days.  My only beef is that, for a
>UNIX release packing so many additional files, SVR4/386 doesn't have better
>support for huge ESDI disks.  It chafes to have to throw away 100MB of
>my Maxtor just to keep upder 1024 cylinders.  I would like to see this
>addressed in a future rev.

Have you considered IDE instead of ESDI? I put a 200meg IDE drive with 1272
cylinders on my machine running ESIX rev B [two revisions out of date...]
and it sees all the cylinders.  Which is more than I can say for the MSDOG
4.01 fdisk ...

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