Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Controller/driver combo... will it work?
Message-ID: <713@spdcc.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 88 02:18:24 GMT
References: <3575@killer.UUCP> <4144@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <257@bby-bc.UUCP>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: Microport

In article <257@bby-bc.UUCP>, john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) writes:
> I don't understand the problem here (I'm not disputing the correctness
> of your claim re microport).  It can't be *that* hard to make the system
> work with 26 sectors/track instead of 17.

SCO XENIX v2.2 and above supports RLL controllers quite well.  SCO's disk driver
reads in the disk geometry (including sectors/track) from a sector on the
front of the disk, and configures itself appropriately.  It need not rely on
the BIOS tables.  There is no technical reason why Microport cannot do the
same; like many such problems, it is a marketing and support issue which they
will have to address one day.