Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 08:51:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" <sos@kmd-ac.dk> To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DPT ESDI Caching controller Message-ID: <199501100753.AA13538@dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199501100242.CAA28430@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen Hocking" at Jan 10, 95 12:41:58 pm
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> I've just picked up one of these things sans manual, along with an old 300Mb
> ESDI drive that may be on its last legs. The controller has a second board
> that looks as if it carries about 2Mb of cache. Does anyone know if these
> things just look like an ordinary controller, what jumpers will disable the
> floppy drives, is it capable of having its IRQ and i/o ports changed? (yeah,
> spare the arguments about how the memory would be better used on the
> motherboard, but the fact is the target machine already has all the memory it
> can take)
>
Hmm, we used to have a pair of them around here, I'll go seach for the
manuals :)
They claim it to be 100% wd1003 compatible, so the ordinary wd driver
should work for starters...
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So much code to hack -- so little time
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