ANNOUNCE: New XT disk driver

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From: Pat Mackinlay
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:10

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This is a short note to annouce the second release of the XT hard disk 
drivers for Linux. This set of patches is for Linux 0.99 (pl0) and should
be available on tsx-11 under /pub/linux/ALPHA/xtdisk/xtdisk2.tar.Z and 
/pub/linux/ALPHA/xtdisk/README.xtdisk.

Just a brief introduction: this driver allows you to use XT-style (8 bit) 
hard drive controllers. The advantage of these is that you can use them in 
conjunction with normal AT-style (16 bit) controllers, IDE drives and SCSI 
drives. The major problem with them is the fact that they are very slow, so 
swapping to one of these controllers/disks is not reccomended <grin>.

So, if you have some old MFM or RLL disks that you'd like to use, and you 
can get hold of a suitable XT controller, you can now make use of them 
under Linux. Please email me if you have any questions about this...

The driver now attempts to auto-detect XT controllers and will also try to 
read the disk geometry if it knows how. At the moment, support for this is 
quite minimal, and I would appreciate it if anyone who had one of these 
cards and is using or planning on using the driver could contact me so I 
can add more support.

Pat -- Have a day!


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