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<<On Thu, 2 May 1996 14:06:19 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> said:

> Narvi, I was referring to the new Triton II boards.

It does't matter; all Tritons (and Orions, which use one of the Triton
chips) have bus-master IDE.

It still remains for someone to modify the `wd' driver to take
advantage of this.  There is some code in /sys/pci which attempts to
talk to the chipset, but wd.c doesn't know how to interface.

-GAWollman

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