Optical disk for a unix-pc, is it possible?

[John B. Milton]

In article <1226 at becker.UUCP> bdb at becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <1037 at icus.islp.ny.us> lenny at icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>|[...]
>	If a WD2010 controller is used, then one can
>	use up to 2048 cylinders, for 134,217,728
>	bytes, though I've never seen a ST506/MFM
>	drive with that many cylinders.

The actual limit with the WD2010 is (from /usr/include/gdisk.h):
gdisk.h:#define HDMAXCYL	1400	/* support a maximum of 1400 cylinders */
This is a compiled into the kernel value, we can't change it.


John
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