'386 Unix Wars

[Larry Snyder]

robinro at bomber.ism.isc.com (Robin Roberts) writes:

>tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

>>Anyway, memory is so damn cheap these days.  My only beef is that, for a
>>UNIX release packing so many additional files, SVR4/386 doesn't have better
>>support for huge ESDI disks.  It chafes to have to throw away 100MB of
>>my Maxtor just to keep upder 1024 cylinders.  I would like to see this
>>addressed in a future rev.

>Have you considered IDE instead of ESDI? I put a 200meg IDE drive with 1272
>cylinders on my machine running ESIX rev B [two revisions out of date...]
>and it sees all the cylinders.  Which is more than I can say for the MSDOG
>4.01 fdisk ...

better yet if one wants a screaming system - SCSI - the 1542B remaps the
drives to have 64 heads - 

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