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- From: dtynan@borax.kbss.bt.co.uk (Dermot Tynan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386bsd] Old ST506 drives?
- Keywords: st506, 386bsd
- Message-ID: <1234@borax.kbss.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 11:24:08 GMT
- Organization: British Telecom
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- Excuse the ignorance, but I've been out of the PC world for a while
- now. I'm replacing my old UNIX box with a 486SX PC beastie, running
- 386BSD. Anyway, the new machine (which hasn't arrived yet) has a 210Mb
- IDE drive. Everyone talks about IDE these days. I have two 80Mb ST506
- style drives I'd like to use with the system. I presume that IDE is
- some reduced form of ST506? Anyway, is it possible to get a 16-bit
- ST506 controller which will handle two such drives? Secondly, will
- 386BSD support such a controller? Thirdly, I'd like the IDE (with 32K
- cache) to be the primary drive. My scant memory of this says there'll
- be a problem getting the ST506 controller to stay quiet, and out of the
- boot process. Is there a port number confliction? In other words, is
- this something I can do? Pushing my luck even further, I'd like to use
- the QIC24 tape drive out of the old UNIX box. Is there an ST506
- controller card with a QIC24 controller on board? What is the
- recommended controller to buy, if I already have a tape drive?
-
- Secondly, has anyone written any drivers for the Soundblaster and the
- Pro board? I'm designing an AES/EBU interface board for ISA. I'll be
- writing 386BSD drivers only. I may also put a stereo audio D/A and A/D
- on the board. Is anyone else interested in such a beast? Finally, does
- anyone have an address/phone number for Archive (for their DAT drives)?
- Furthermore, does anyone with experience of this drive know whether or
- not it'll read actual digital audio tapes (ones with audio on them)?
- Thanks for the info, and now back to your regularly scheduled program.
- - Der
- --
- Dermot Tynan dtynan@kbss.bt.co.uk Contractor-at-large
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