esdi and unix (sorta was Re: 1542 and att unix)

[Glen Martin]

In article <30675 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt3408a at prism.gatech.EDU (DYKES,DAVID PRESTON) writes:
|> 	The thread about att's unix running on third party hardware
|> raises a question for me that maybe one of ya'll can answer.  Does this imply
|> that att unix would not work on on an esdi configuration.  I would think
|> that it would since obviously att supports at type drives (ie st506), and
|> I thought that esdi, while using a faster protocall to talk at the disk, looked
|> just like an st506 controller to the machine.

Actually, there are two kinds of ESDI controllers (at least): one looks
just like an ST506 controller, the other doesn't. The non-ST506 one is
suposed to be faster, but that's just a rumour ...

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glen
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