'386 Unix Wars

[Robin Roberts]

tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

>Anyway, memory is so damn cheap these days.  My only beef is that, for a
>UNIX release packing so many additional files, SVR4/386 doesn't have better
>support for huge ESDI disks.  It chafes to have to throw away 100MB of
>my Maxtor just to keep upder 1024 cylinders.  I would like to see this
>addressed in a future rev.

Have you considered IDE instead of ESDI? I put a 200meg IDE drive with 1272
cylinders on my machine running ESIX rev B [two revisions out of date...]
and it sees all the cylinders.  Which is more than I can say for the MSDOG
4.01 fdisk ...

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