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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: AT and Western Digital hard disk drivers
Message-ID: <1201@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 05:58:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  7 05:58:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 06:32:02 EDT
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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I recently received mail asking whether I would include a disk driver for the
hard disk used on the 8 MHz IBM PC-AT in MINIX 1.2.  I don't have one of those
machines here, so I don't even know what kind of a disk it is.  If someone
who knows about that disk will post a note saying what controller it uses,
that would be nice.  If someone would modify at_wini.c or xt_wini.c to use it,
that would be even better. I will include it for the benefit of people with
8 MHz AT's if someone else will write it.

On the same subject, I would like to include the western digital disk driver
in the next release as well.  There was a lot of discussion about it earlier,
and I sort of lost track of it, but since the discussion died down, I presume
a working driver eventually became available.  Will someone who has the
driver and followed the discussion well enough to know that they have the
most recent version send me mail.  Then I will ask one of the people replying
to send me the driver.  (Such a request may generate a lot of transatlantic
mail, but at least it will be short mail.)

Thanks.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)