Re: 2 R40 drives

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From: Marco Papa
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1989 20:51

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In article <5466@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tew@n.sp.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Warfel) writes:
>Our recently upgraded Model 25 PC/RT has two unusable R40 drives.  Does
>anyone know if it is possible to make them work with a normal PC/XT controller
>card?

Yes, it is possible. Depending on your version of DOS you might have to create
two partitions. The 'old' DOS did not support partitions larger than 32M.

- Marco Papa
  USC Advanced Computing Support Center
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