Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!> | Subject | Re: obsolete code must die | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:25:01 +0200 (CEST) |
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> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel wrote: > > MFM/RLL/XT/ESDI hard drive support > > Does anyone still *have* an RLL drive that works? At the very least get rid
RLL ? Curently no. But I have a dosen of working ST225 with a dosen of ST11M MFM controllers. Some of them ar\e still in use, mainly for booting purposes (LILO) ...
> > of the old driver (eg CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE, > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PS2) > > I am not certain how much this stuff is still used outside the US. The XT > driver still being around does surprise me though. (Will that even *work* > on modern hardware? I didn't think you could get that card to work on a > 386.)
Most of the boards work fine with 486. However, in most cases the BIOS low-level-format routine does not work on them (timing issues). So low level formatting needs a 386. I think all of them should work on 586+ if without BIOS...
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