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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Additional IDE support? (was Re: Interactive 2.2.1 Upgrade)
Keywords: interactive unix upgrade posix ide
Message-ID: <1040@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 08:13:56 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.140259.25395@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan09.172325.715@nstar.rn.com>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
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brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:

>there is no "fix" perse in this latest release. Technical support stated the
>following as the 2.2.1 fixes:
[...]
>	*  Additional IDE support for Seagate and Rodime

I'm not sure I understand this.

Weren't all the people telling all the time that an IDE device looks
exactly like and standard disk controller (ST412/ST506) to the rest of
the system?

How can there be a necessity for `additional support'?
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83