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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: IDE disks
Keywords: minix, at, install, IDE, MFM, RLL, SCSI, ESDI
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Date: 16 Feb 91 04:36:37 GMT
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In article <1627@pdxgate.UUCP> martine@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Martine Wedlake) writes:
>	When I boot any of the boot disks I get "Read  Error.   Automatic
>	Reboot"  and  the system tries to reboot (which of course fails).
>	The boot disks do work on  other  machines  such  as  a  386  and
>	turbo-88 board.  I am running an AT clone with an IDE hard/floppy
>	controller.

I asked this question before, but never got any definitive answers.

Just exactly what is an IDE drive/controller?
Does it look like MFM?  RLL?  SCSI?  ESDI?  Something else?
Does it need a new device driver?
Will any of the existing device drivers work?

Please answer to the net, cuz everybody wants to know.

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