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From: larry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 30 Mb disk with Xenix ??
Message-ID: <280@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 14:25:50 EST
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In article <276@hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>[Questions about hard disks]

I found that the "special ibm issue" of byte (came out ~2 months ago) is
very helpful when you have questions about IBM's.  Things they covered
included hard disks for the AT, Ram for the AT motherboard, Pc interrupt
routines, etc, etc.   To specifically answer Richard's question about
drives, the AT has a table of known drives with room for a user-defined
entry as well (if you bought brand x from midnite disk supply).  The table
is read each time the system boots.  You run the setup section of the
diagnostics to tell it which type of drive you have.  Hope this helps,

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