From: dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) Subject: Re: is RLL SOL? Date: 2 Oct 1992 22:41:40 GMT
alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.120223.1109@aau.dk> psykseth@aau.dk 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.
>>
>>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)?
[praise for linux deleted ]
>>Cheers,
>> Seth
>>
>Your RLL drive should work ,you do have an AT drive controller ?
Just to verify this, I have a CDC Wren 3 (106 Meg) and a Maxtor
XT1240R (195 Meg) running on my system right now. The controller is
a clone of a WD RLL controller, WD1006 maybe? Linux has no complaints
at all. Just make sure you have the major/minor numbers set up
properly, and you're using an AT controller (as anthony mentioned.)
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