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From: oneel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:05

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In article <&-4wHrp9-b@atlantis.psu.edu> balbert@mahler.psu.edu (Kyr Velusian) writes:
   In article <93010.142626MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu> MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu (Mitch Lewars) writes:
   >I have the following hardware setup:
   >386 dx w/ 4 megs of Ram
   >Intel Above Classic Bus Board 1/2 meg
   >1.44m, 1.2m Floppy drives
   >90 meg, 60 meg hard drives (with boot on the 90 meg) RLL Encoded
   >Trident 8900C video w/ 1 meg
   >Vga Monitor
   >Panasonic P1124 -24pin printer
   >
   >Ok, my questions are:
   >If I wish to run off a MsDos/Linux Platform
   >which OS should have the first partition on
   >my boot hard disk?

   well, first of all, Linux does not support use of RLL hard drives...
   so, you can not have Linux on any of yer RLL drives.  The order doesnt
   matter, however, if you have a non-RLL drive.

Linux works fine with RLL drives.  What it doesn't work too well with
is a RLL controller with an onboard BIOS.  Even that isn't 100% true
since someone has been working on a driver to fix that.  The quick way
to tell whether or not Linux will work with your RLL drives is to look
in your motherboard BIOS setup utility.  If your drives are listed as
"not installed" then linux won't work without modification.  If on the
other hand your drives show a drive type number than linux works fine.
My setup is a AMI BIOS, ST22R controller, and 2 ST238R drives.  I have
the motherboard setup so that both drives are type 47.  Linux works
fine.

Have fun with it!

bruce

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Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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