disk drive hell (aka /etc/hdinit)

[Greg Hackney]

In article <187 at turnkey.TCC.COM> jack at turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>How can someone go to all the expense of buying a 386 box and then put an
>ST225 drive in it!!?!

Someone could be broke. :-) Actually, the box came with an 80MB drive.
I put the 20MB in for some extra storage space. Couldn't see throwing
it out in the street yet.

>Also you aren't trying to run Xenix-86 on it too are you???
>My recommendation would be that now that you have spent $X000
>on a state of the art box the least you could do is pay a few hundred
>for an AT-class drive (~40Meg) and run an OS that
>will utilize your hardware!!!

Just messing around until the 386 software arrives. The insanity
is due to having a new box with nothing but DOS to run on it.