SCO Xenix 2.3.1 with large ESDI drives
RICHARD RONTELTAP
richard at neabbs.UUCP
Sun Oct 16 05:02:09 AEST 1988
> From: bill at cdin-1.UUCP (G. William Perrin)
> Has anyone managed to get Xenix up on a 338MB drive without lossing
60MB of
> the drive because SCO Xenix can't handle that large a drive?
Well, we didn't have any problem using the extra tracks on our
NBD (Newbury Data) 14380. That is a 380 MB (unformatted) drive,
used with a WD1005 ESDI controller.
We just put drive type 32 in the CMOS ram (a drive with 15
heads, but less cylinders and secs/track) and installed
Xenix/386 2.2.1 on the disk. During the install you get to the
dkinit program. There you can specify the exact parameters of
your drive. Ours looks like this:
Disk Parameters Values
--------------- ------
1. Cylinders 1224
2. Heads 15
3. Write Reduce 0
4. Write Precomp 65535
5. Ecc 0
6. Control 8
7. Landing Zone 1224
8. Sectors/track 34
The drive itself can handle 36 secs/track, but I believe the
controller can't.
Success with your screamer box.
If you can't figure it out, send me one of your 25 Mhz cached
386 computers, I will galantly try it for you... (double -:)
Richard
(...!mcvax!neabbs!richard)
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