From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 (not clone) Disk Controller - registers needed for Linux Date: 28 May 1992 20:50:08 GMT
In article <1992May27.183331.9884@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
>ijw11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Ian Wells) writes:
>: One of the more recent upgrades for MINIX has a PS/2 ESDI driver in
>: it. It might be worth looking at that for help (although I wouldn't
>: recommend nicking any code, MINIX people seem to be a bit touchy
>: about that).
>: Also, the keyboard driver didn't work on the PS/2s I
>: tried. It completely ignores the backspace key, which is very
>: frustrating.
>The backspace problem is apparently a problem with the latest version of linux
>switching to another VC usually cures it.
>
There is a know problem like this associated with the shell on the
distribution disk. Same symptoms. If that's it, use bash instead.
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