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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Bell Tech Unix Review #2
Message-ID: <11710@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 88 18:52:55 GMT
References: <195@focsys.UUCP> <250@belltec.UUCP> <5076@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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| I don't mean to flame Bell Technologies, because Microport and SCO
| also appear to have this same problem, along with Novell and who knows
| what else.  I've never been able to determine what lead all of them to
| do things wrong - IBM's AT technical reference manual clearly shows
| that using the ROM is the wrong way to do things.

  A person reading this could assume that UNIX for the AT clone doesn't
do this. That person could also assume that you don't know it does
this... Xenix, at least, allows you to set the HD params as part of
installation, and works just fine with anything the controller will
handle. You just enter the # sectore, heads, and tracks. I believe that
V/386 has this as well, since a friend runs some bizarre disk for a 2nd
drive, but I don't know if they support this or he hacked it in.

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me