From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 9 23:54:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA06375 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:54:02 -0800 Received: from dkuug.dk (dkuug.dk [193.88.44.89]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA06369 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:53:55 -0800 Received: from kmd-ac.dk by dkuug.dk with UUCP id AA13538 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for FreeBSD.org!hackers); Tue, 10 Jan 1995 08:53:44 +0100 Message-Id: <199501100753.AA13538@dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: DPT ESDI Caching controller To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 08:51:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501100242.CAA28430@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen Hocking" at Jan 10, 95 12:41:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 957 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time ..