stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (11/12/85)
Anyone know if vanilla IBM Xenix will work with the new 30 Mbyte
fixed disk, and if so, how do you tell the system when you boot
that its really the 30 Mbyte ??
Also, anyone know what the difference is between the 20 and 30 Mb
disks - from the diskinfo table I'd guess the 30 Mb has 6 heads
instead of 4, but I haven't seen any specifics on the 30 Mb disk yet.
Richard Stevens
Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
ihnp4 ! hsi ! stevenslarry@geowhiz.UUCP (Larry McVoy) (11/13/85)
In article <276@hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes: >[Questions about hard disks] I found that the "special ibm issue" of byte (came out ~2 months ago) is very helpful when you have questions about IBM's. Things they covered included hard disks for the AT, Ram for the AT motherboard, Pc interrupt routines, etc, etc. To specifically answer Richard's question about drives, the AT has a table of known drives with room for a user-defined entry as well (if you bought brand x from midnite disk supply). The table is read each time the system boots. You run the setup section of the diagnostics to tell it which type of drive you have. Hope this helps, -- Larry McVoy +----------------+ | Slower traffic | Arpa: mcvoy@rsch.wisc.edu | keep right | Uucp: {seismo, ihnp4}!uwvax!geowhiz!geophiz!larry +----------------+