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From: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX ST and Supra hard disks
Message-ID: <154@nlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 20:34:41 GMT
References: <28@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU>
Reply-To: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Organization: Philips Research Geldrop
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In article <28@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU> kimmel@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU (Mathew Kimmel) writes:
	>I've heard that the current version of Minix ST will not talk to Supra
	>hard disks.  However, I've also seen a message from someone who says he
	>uses a Supra hard disk with Minix ST and has no problems.  I'm not sure
	>what to believe, but I'd like to know the answer before I buy Minix.
	>Can the current version of Minix ST talk to a Supra hard disk?  If not,
	>is there a patch available that I could apply to the operating system to
	>fix this?

I have been called by one of the developers of Supra (W. Brown), who
mentioned problems reported by some of his customers. He himself had 
no MINIX-ST and I have no Supra disk. Has someone on the net a
combination of these two ingredients at hand, with some time and
willingness to look into this problem?
I would very much like to have MINIX-ST run on the Supra drive, since
they are quite popular.
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Johan W. Stevenson	johan@pcg.philips.nl		Philips Research