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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Microchannel Support Date: 28 Jul 1994 20:20:41 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3193up$ihn@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <3169ik$lah@portal.gmu.edu> <MYCROFT.94Jul27175952@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <MYCROFT.94Jul27175952@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >I suspect ST506/IDE/ESDI disks would >require all new code. So far as I know, there are no ST-506 products for MCA. There may be IDE, but the standard seems to be IBM's proprietary ESDI controller which is completely incompatible with all the others. The gentleman who performed the 386BSD port to the Micro Channel used IBM's protected-mode BIOS to talk to the disk. Mach 3.0 includes code which does the same thing. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant