Do any UNIX vendors run on IDE disks ?

[James Van Artsdalen]

In <28327 at boulder.Colorado.EDU>, turnerk at snoopy.Colorado.EDU wrote:

> We currently have SCO Unix V3.2 running on a 386 25MHz machine.  We
> have a maxtor 200MB IDE drive and it works incredibly well.  No
> problems.  Shouldn't be any problems with any othere Unix systems
> either.

It's not guaranteed to work.  At least one unix port would, under some
circumstances, try to determine the geometry of a disk drive by
experiment.  Since many IDE drives are willing to set their geometry
to whatever is requested, this can lead to great confusion.

Just call SCO and ask if it's supported, or make sure you can return
the software or hard disk if it doesn't work.
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