From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) Subject: Re: Perstor controller and linux??? Date: 2 Aug 1992 19:54:25 GMT
In article <BrtBz5.Jyw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ral45184@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (sPiNdRy ) writes:
>
> Has anyone tried using a perstor controller with linux???
> I think they've had problems with DOS 5... not quite sure why.
> But as far as I know, the perstor changes the format on the drive
> to increase the capacity... and then reports to bios the correct
> (augmented) size. Will this work with linux? I have the
> opportunity to buy such a card...
>
> thanks
>
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The Perstor card looks like an ST506 MFM interface. It's worked for me
on Xenix and Interactive 2.2.2. I'm running Esix 4.0.3 w/SCSI disks right
now so I haven't tried Linux on anything other than an old MFM drive
that Perstor won't work with (an original 30 meg AT drive ;-)).
Make sure you don't pay much for that Perstor card. Perstor went
out of business about a year and a half or so ago.
Steve Hite
shite@sinkhole.unf.edu