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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: Microport hardware compatibility query
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.135130.26188@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 13:51:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.153041.23329@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Feb12.034759.22478@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1991Feb12.034759.22478@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
"In article <1991Feb11.153041.23329@sbcs.sunysb.edu> pmartino@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Steve Wechsler) writes:
[]
">							Will Microport
">support IDE drives (in the docs, they make mention of an ESDI drive, and I
"
"     No.

i'm surprised.  ide drives mostly (exactly?) look like plain-vanilla
dos drives+controllers; their claim-to-fame is bundling the controller
electronics with the drive electronics on the drive.  they should be
indistinguishable from mfm drives and conventional controllers, to the
software...

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