Microport Sys V and hard disks
Rick Richardson
gemini at homxb.UUCP
Mon Apr 28 01:24:26 AEST 1986
dan at prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank) writes:
> After hearing about (and experiencing myself) all the problems people
> have installing Xenix on an AT or compatible with anything but the IBM
> standard hard disks, I was gratified to discover that Microport did it
> right.
> The way it works is, when you run their hard disk setup program, it
> asks if you want to use the default parameters or supply your own. If
> you elect to supply your own, they get written at the beginning of the
> alternate track table, for later use by the hard disk drivers.
Venturcom's Venix System V release 2.1A also gets this right.
Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134, (201) 834-1378 @ AT&T-CP
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