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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.unix
Subject: Re: Microport Sys V and hard disks
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Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 11:24:26 EDT
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dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank) writes:
>    After hearing about (and experiencing myself) all the problems people
> have installing Xenix on an AT or compatible with anything but the IBM
> standard hard disks, I was gratified to discover that Microport did it
> right.
>    The way it works is, when you run their hard disk setup program, it
> asks if you want to use the default parameters or supply your own.  If
> you elect to supply your own, they get written at the beginning of the
> alternate track table, for later use by the hard disk drivers.

	Venturcom's Venix System V release 2.1A also gets this right.

Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378 @ AT&T-CP
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