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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA and Disk Questions
Keywords: VGA, disk, dos, unix
Message-ID: <6476@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:58:27 GMT
References: <662@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <662@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> smg@eedsp.gatech.edu (Stephen McGrath) writes:
>...the disk issue. I am trying to decide whether to get an ESDI
>interface drive or a standard interface RLL drive.

>I remember reading postings recently which seemed
>to say standard AT-interface (ST506/418 (?)) RLL drives are not supported
>under current versions of 386 unix systems, but that an ESDI or SCSI
>interface is required. Is there any truth to this?

In the various UNIXes I've installed (AT&T (via INTEL); Interactive; and
INTEL) they've all installed on MFM, RLL and ESDI drives as if it didn't
make a hill of beans of difference.  SCSI is another matter.  I thinks the
RLL and ESDI systems work because the controllers are register-compatible
with the MFM controllers, but I'm not sure...

kEITHe