From: Ian Justman (ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US)
Date: 02/10/93


From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
Subject: Re: Linux on ESDI-drive?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 16:58:15 GMT

jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:

: I'm using it right now. ESDI, IDE, and original AT MFM/RLL all look the
: same as far as the software.

However, I have seen an ESDI controller with a ROM on it.

: SCSI is the weird one, but Linux supports it.

That's true, too, but there are some dedicated folks out there writing code
for the various controllers out there.

: The only thing that definately won't work is an 8-bit XT controller.

I must beg to differ with you on this one. Pat Mackinlay and I are hard
at work on driver code for this one. I've got a WD1002A-WX1 working here
just fine. As far as boot drives are concerned, I haven't tried it.

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