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From: eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Non-ST506 winchester driver for PS/2
Keywords: ST506 PS/2 386 Model 70
Message-ID: <2191@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:03:53 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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I've just tried to get MINIX running on an IBM PS/2 Model 70 386, and found
that the ps_wini.c driver only works for ST506 drives.  The Model 70 has
a strange drive on an edge connector rather than ribbon cables - I presume
that it is some kind of IDE, but I wouldn't like to bet on it.

Has anyone got MINIX running on one of these machines ?  I don't want to use
bios_wini.c because I want to run Bruce's 386 version of MINIX and I assume
that anything which calls the BIOS is strictly verboten for this.

Thanks in advance

Andy Michael


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