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From: terry@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD: Problem in wd.c (?) - affects swap, non-atatched drive(s)
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:52:08 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Joseph,

	You might want to try the Norway wd driver by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo.  In
my opinion, it is definitely superior to even the patched stock wd driver.  It
fixes problems with bad block handling completely, supports 4 drives with 2
controllers.  I think the stock wd driver won't support secondary controllers
because the BIOS has no support for them (the stock wd driver still relies on
the BIOS tables for the initialization routines).  You can ftp the Norway
driver from barsoom.nhh.no.  Good luck!

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Terry Lee
terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu