From: Joseph H Allen (jhallen@world.std.com)
Date: 02/07/93


From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: Re: Linux on ESDI-drive?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 22:16:40 GMT

In article <1koh18INNmou@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> hogan@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Tuukka Uusheimo) writes:
>
>I saw an add selling a used ESDI drive for a reasonable price, and because
>I now want to add a second hard disk on my machine to be able to run Linux,
>I would be interested to know... Has anyone installed Linux on a PC (386)
>with an ESDI-drive? Or is it possible at all?

I'm using it right now. ESDI, IDE, and original AT MFM/RLL all look the
same as far as the software. SCSI is the weird one, but Linux supports it.
The only thing that definately won't work is an 8-bit XT controller.

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