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- From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
- Subject: Re: MFM and IDE drives coexist under Linux?
- References: <1992Dec12.232543.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
- Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822 Sacramento CA. USA
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:44:21 GMT
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- smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay) writes:
- :
- : I guess I'm just going to have to keep on saying it <sigh>. There are
- : _MAJOR_ differences between AT (16 bit) and XT (8 bit) hard disk
- : controllers. They use a completely different set of IO ports and IRQs.
-
- Not entirely. I have a seondary controller which is an XT controller, but
- I _HAD_ to jumper it to be a second controller. There is at least ONE
- port that I know of that the AT and the XT controllers share.
-
- Also, the most readily-available patch is the XT patch. Unfortunately for
- me, the patch was written for a DTC controller, and I have a Western Digital,
- but NOT TO FEAR, UNDERDOG IS HERE! I phoned up WDC and got some programming
- specs and I'm going to TRY (operative word) to get it running. If I DO
- get it running, I'll have someone upload it to whatever Internet sites
- are most popular for Linux, most notably tsx-11; do realize that I don't
- have Internet access.
- --
- Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP
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