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From: cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: UNIX Formatting Limit
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Date: 11 May 91 04:50:12 GMT
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 I have an acquaintance who is attempting to install SVR4 on a 386/33 clone
which as a 600MB hard drive.  He initially had trouble getting the beast
to do a low-level format, but finally <read the manuals>.  When he booted
the first floppy, it went and did a surface analysis...and did a regular
format...and it stopped at cylinder 1023, making a total of 1024 cyls.
  Is there a limit to the number of cylinders that SVR4 can handle...is
it at this "nice round HEX number"?  I was at a loss to explain this as
I have formatted 1GB drives with SVR4 (but didn't know about how many
cylinders they had..they were SCSI and his are ESDI).
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