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Subject: Re: Status of (E)IDE drives 
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:20:38 -0800
From: Erich Boleyn <erich@uruk.org>
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Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> wrote:

> > Hi.  I was wondering what the current status of EIDE
> > drives is with the smp kernel.  I have just purchased
> > a Tyan Tomcat II motherboard, and I am about to purchase
> > a disk for it, and if (for the time being) I couild save
> > money and by a EIDE drive, it would be ghood! =)
> 
> my belief is that they work if options APIC_IO and SMP_INVLTLB are both set.
> can users confirm this?

I didn't use an IDE drive for booting, but I could read the contents
of the IDE disk I use for DOS/Windows/NT just fine (with APIC_IO
and SMP_INVLTLB).

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