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From: raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Possible solution for hard disk for Minix on the Amiga
Keywords: Amiga Harddisk WEDGE Driver
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Date: 4 Oct 90 07:47:23 GMT
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erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) writes:

>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 hard disk driver if written in C, and yes: you may port the PC-Minix
driver. You are even encouraged to do so.

>Comments, suggestions?

Buy AmigaMINIX, port the PC-Minix driver and post it to the net...

>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.

The bad boot disk isn't really that much of a problem: we have
include an extra copy of the mangled file (the kernel image) on
the AmigaMINIX boot disk.

	-Raymond.