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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Subject: Re: ESDI wini.c ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.165804.25792@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Keywords: ESDI, wini.c, winchester, minix
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
References: <1991Jun25.225227.10124@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <13985@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 16:58:04 GMT

In article <13985@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.225227.10124@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> sac@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stuart Alan Craig) writes:
>}I am trying to get MINIX up on line for several campus AT's and
>}ran into ESDI drives.  Does anyone out there in MINIX-LAND have
>}a driver?  If not, how about reference material on the controller
>}interface (if I get one written, I will repost).

at_wini.c should work (perhaps slowly) for ISA AT's.

>Get the upgrade package for 1.6.16 from star.cs.vu.nl . It contains an esdi
>driver. Unfortunately, there are some procedures (out_word and in_word I 
>believe) that it uses that are not in 1.5.10 . What you need to do is to

This probably won't work. It is for a particular PS/2 model.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au