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From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Possible solution for hard disk for Minix on the Amiga
Keywords: Amiga Harddisk WEDGE Driver
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Date: 3 Oct 90 17:57:09 GMT
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I have a WEDGE PC/XT I/O card adapter on the Amiga.  There are several
other adapters (SPIRIT-506, Palomax and the like) which map PC-XT disk
controllers into Amiga memory space.  Instead of IO instructions, the
driver for AmigaDOS uses memory access instructions.  I am using a real
DTC-5150 on my A1000 and a real DTC-5160 on the A500.

Is the hard disk driver for PC-Minix written in Assembler, C or both?  If
I buy a license for Amiga-Minix, will I be allowed to port the PC-Minix
driver?  The card is the same, only the individual access instructions
would need to be changed (plus the instruction set, of course ;-)  The logic
flow of the driver would remain intact.

Comments, suggestions?

I was planning on buying Amiga-Minix, but with the MC680x0 restriction
and the bad boot disk, I am glad I have waited so far.  If I can get
hard drive support for minimal effort (I am capable of porting the driver),
that would push me over the edge.

-ethan