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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: UNIX drivers for 3rd party hardware
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Message-ID: <10070@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 15:25:02 GMT
References: <1990Apr7.044529.4320@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1990Apr7.044529.4320@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rlcarr@space.mit.edu (Animato) writes:
>So, if I want UNIX, does that mean I am out of luck unless I get a CBM
>controller?  Or does CBM plan to help 3rd party people with disk (and other)
>UNIX drivers?

I seem to recall that Microbotics has been complaining (on BIX) that
Commodore simply hasn't told them anything about device drivers for
Unix.  Dunno how true this is, but it might explain their lack of
enthusiasm.

>And finally, if I end up selling my HardFrame and getting a 2091, will I
>have to reformat the drive, or could I get away with just running CBM's
>prep program?

The HardFrame and the 2091 both adhere to Commodore's RDB specs for
autobooting controllers, so you should be able to take a drive straight
off the HardFrame, stick it on the 2091, and boot off of it without
doing a thing.  Of course, to run UNIX you'll have to reformat at
least one partition as a UNIX file system, but you shouldn't have to
low-level format the entire drive.

Of course, I've never seen Commodore's Unix, so I could be wrong on
that last bit.

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University