Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!bruce!sol0!cechew From: cechew@sol0.cs.monash.edu.au (Earl Chew) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: IDE fix for wini.c problem Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 20:33:36 GMT References: <1991Mar27.080437.6998@sol.UVic.CA@ <9496@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU Lines: 19 ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >I don't have any IDE drives here, so I can't verify this. If enough other >IDE drive owners verify that this works, I will add it to the code protected >by #ifdef IDE. Is it needed in at_wini.c or xt_wini.c or both? Are there >other changes needed for IDE? I hasten to add that this is only needed for brain damaged IDE drives. IDE drives look to the software like the old AT drives (ie they respond at the old WD IO addresses). In theory :-) no changes are required for IDE. I suggest that the code be protected by #if SLOW_IDE (which is describes the problem better). My IDE drive needs no changes to the AT driver. Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655778 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------