Installing UNIX V/386 3.2 on a MAXTOR 2190

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1990Jul05.001108.8645 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
| In article <1990Jul4.200619.22681 at ariel.unm.edu> jcmiller at hydra.unm.edu (Jeff Miller) writes:
| >the partitions as follows: unix: 0 to 899 cyl, dos 900 to 1023, and
| >dos 1024 to 1223 cyl.
| 
| When installing UNIX on a disk with more than 1024 cyls, make sure that 
| unix is in the last partition.  For your disk you should use:
| 
| 		dos	  0 to	 322
| 		unix	323 to	1223

  Close. The actual problem is that all DOS partitions must be in the
first 1024 cylinders to work right. You might get by the problem with
something like Speedstor, but since 3.3 and later will do multiply
partitions I would stick with just DOS.

  unix doesn't have to be last, but DOS has to be low. I have seen some
versions of UNIX which don't do >1024 cylinders right. Since this came
from the factory installed, I assume that version *can't* do it right,
but SCO UNIX works fine and we didn't chase it too far. We tried what
they said on the hotline, called and tried the other stuff they said,
then went to SCO and got some work done. V.4 works okay, too.
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