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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!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!portal.gmu.edu!mason1.gmu.edu!ssedlmey From: ssedlmey@mason1.gmu.edu (Steven P Sedlmeyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Microchannel Support Date: 1 Aug 1994 19:11:05 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31jhc9$j69@portal.gmu.edu> References: <3169ik$lah@portal.gmu.edu> <MYCROFT.94Jul27175952@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <3193up$ihn@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mason1.gmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Garrett Wollman (wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu) wrote: : 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. Actually, there are ST-506 products for MCA, also, anything made in the last 3 years or so will have either IDE or SCSI disks. : 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. Where would I find this port of 386BSD? Is it on cdrom.com? : -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 ________________________________________________________________________ Steven P. Sedlmeyer George Mason University ssedlmey@gmu.edu sedlmyrs@netcom.com