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From: rda136k@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Simon Cocking)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: (Amiga): A HD driver with a twist...
Summary: Anyone have a driver/info for a parallel port hard disk?
Keywords: parallel, hard disk
Message-ID: <1991May21.113844.26594@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 21 May 91 11:38:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: monu6.1991May21.113844.26594
Organization: Department of RDT, Monash Uni
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Hi,
   I have a Multisoft Fastdrive 100 (a parallel port SCSI hard disk) on
my Amiga 500, and I am trying to get it to work with Minix.  The problem
is that the minix loader/kernel/whatever does not realise that the hard
disk exists, since it only checks for bus drives.  Now, is there someone out
there who has one of these beasts working with minix, or does anyone
have any ideas as to how I would go about writing a driver for it?  The
hard disk just plugs into the parallel port, and uses a special device
under AmigaDos.  Would there be a way for Minix to use the existing driver?
Can it use the hard disk at all?
   Thanks in advance,
-- 
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