jdeitch@pnet01.cts.com (Jim Deitch) (07/17/89)
davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) writes: >In article <1710@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes: > >| I am concerned that I will not be able to do this, because >| Xenix appears to only allow one DOS partition on a drive, and I am >| afraid that partition may be limited to 32 Mbyte. Has anyone put >| a large (100 Mbyte) DOS partition on the same drive as Xenix? Or put >| multiple 32 Mbyte partitions. If I cannot use a single drive for >| both Xenix and DOS as I wish, I may be better off getting 2 150 Mbyte >| drives. > > Xenix will allow about anything, but it only seems to use one >partition per drive, and that must be as follows: > 1. a "primary DOS partition" > 2. size <= 32MB > 3. starting at the beginning (cylinder 0) of the disk > > You can have other DOS partitions, but Xenix probably won't use them. >You might want to have a small 5-10MB primary DOS partition and then a >big one so you could use the primary as a buffer. > > Note: when running DOS partitions > 32MB you get a larger cluster size >and every file takes up more space. If you don't have large files you >may be happier with several small partitions. > bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) > {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen >"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me I am using Xenix 2.2 on my Maxtor XT1140 (120 meg) with dos 3.3. Seems that the extended dos partition is not readable as a dos partition by Xenix, but the primary dos partition is. My drive is configured as follows: part 1: Primary DOS part 2: Extended DOS part 3: Xenix part 1: 32 mb part 2: 50 mb part 3: 40 mb (or there abouts I have had no problems. Jim UUCP: {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jdeitch ARPA: crash!pnet01!jdeitch@nosc.mil INET: jdeitch@pnet01.cts.com