Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr.ca!glenm
From: glenm@bnr.ca (Glen Martin)
Subject: Re: esdi and unix (sorta was Re: 1542 and att unix)
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.171048.27683@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: esdi unix att 1542 st506
Sender: news@bigsur.uucp
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References:  <30675@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 17:10:48 GMT

In article <30675@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt3408a@prism.gatech.EDU (DYKES,DAVID PRESTON) writes:
|> 	The thread about att's unix running on third party hardware
|> raises a question for me that maybe one of ya'll can answer.  Does this imply
|> that att unix would not work on on an esdi configuration.  I would think
|> that it would since obviously att supports at type drives (ie st506), and
|> I thought that esdi, while using a faster protocall to talk at the disk, looked
|> just like an st506 controller to the machine.

Actually, there are two kinds of ESDI controllers (at least): one looks
just like an ST506 controller, the other doesn't. The non-ST506 one is
suposed to be faster, but that's just a rumour ...

|> -- 
|> DYKES,DAVID PRESTON
|> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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glen
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