From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: is RLL SOL? Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:03:17 GMT
In article <1992Oct1.120223.1109@aau.dk> psykseth@aau.dk (Seth Chaiklin) writes:
>I have looked in the various INSTALL docs, and the FAQ (from July) and nary
>a peep about whether Linux can be installed on an RLL drive.
>There was a peep that MFM, ESDI and SCSI were possible, so perhaps by
>implcations RLL is out of the running.
Linux supports anything that's register compatable with a WD1003 MFM
disk controller (ie, the original PC-AT disk controller.) Most AT MFM,
RLL, ESDI, and IDE setups look like this.
XT compatable disk controllers won't work.
Generally, the rule is if you have the disk configured into the
CMOS setup of your machine, it will work (because the BIOS is talking
to a WD 1003 compatable board), otherwise it won't.
SCSI disks are special, and handled by their own drivers.
>Anyway, I have this wonderful ST-238R which Linux 0.97.11 could not read
>(according to fdisk). Am I doomed to live on floppies (or find a rich uncle)?
You probably can get by with buying a new disk controller. Look around,
you should be able to find one used for ~$20. Note that you will have
to re-lowlevel format the disk.
-- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments. Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.