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Re: Pro/Venix Installation

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From: Chaim R. Dworkin
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:53
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In article <BARRY.92Aug30152715@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
>I put an RD52 38 MB HD into a PRO 350 with Venix 1.0, and the OS thought
>it was a 5MB RD50 and formatted it as such.  I never got Venix 1.0 to
>recognize anything bigger than a 10MB RD52A.
>

According to my documentation for venix 2.0 one of the enhancements of v 2.0
is that venix now recognizes hard drives up to 32 Mb in size.  This seems to
tell me that the previous limit was lower and I suspect it was 10 Mb.




Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
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