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From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Minix with a Seagate ST-02 controller?
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.083404.493@nuchat.sccsi.com>
Organization: Teenage Mutant Ninja NiceGuys(tm)
References: <1991Apr13.043942.15309@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 08:34:04 GMT

In article <1991Apr13.043942.15309@leland.Stanford.EDU> dhinds@elaine17.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>What is the status of Minix support of SCSI hard drives on PC-compatibles?
>Does anyone have Minix working with the ST02 controller?  I have a Seagate
>ST296N hard drive, and I'm thinking about acquiring Minix, but won't if
>the two can't be made to cooperate.

I am currently running Minix-386 with Magnus Doell's ST-02 SCSI driver.  His
driver does buffering, so it's reasonably fast (up to 500K/sec or so on my
system).  If there's interest, I'll post it to the net (if Magnus has no
objections, of course :-).

> -David Hinds
>  dhinds@cb-iris.stanford.edu


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