Miniscribe drive - quick advice

[Clyde Smith-Stubbs]

>From article <4564 at tank.uchicago.edu>, by goer at sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz):
> I have a machine on order I intend to run Xenix on.  It
> will be coming with a 150 meg Miniscribe drive with a WD
> 1007 ESDI controller.  No problem with the controller.
> However, will that drive have too many cylinders to run
> properly and effectively under Xenix along with MS-DOS?

No problem - just make sure that you put your DOS partition FIRST. DOS (V3.X
and earlier at least) doesn't address a disk bigger than 32MB, but Xenix
will quite happily start anywhere on the drive. So;

1) Install DOS first
2) Install Xenix, using the rest of the drive for the Xenix partition

and Bob's your uncle!
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