From: bacchus@pollux (Shaheed Bacchus) Subject: Re: is RLL SOL? Date: 6 Oct 1992 18:43:55 GMT
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)?
I have Linux installed on my RLL drive, the trick is the controller card,
the older RLL cards have their own BIOS on them and so you do not have to
define the drive in CMOS, you need to get an RLL card where you can disable
the BIOS and define the drive in CMOS, I have a ST-22R and it allows me
to do this.
-Shaheed Bacchus bacchus@pollux.cs.uga.edu