Sort-of OT: Minix
Leo J Mauler
webgiant at juno.com
Mon Mar 8 09:00:19 CST 2004
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:24:39 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Sunday, March 07, 2004 05:36 am, Leo J Mauler wrote:
>
> > It does appear that MFM/RLL isn't supported, as
> > the docs only talk about IDE hard drives. This means
> > that your IBM PC will be running Minix entirely on
> > floppies, though you can probably load up Minix on
> > your 286's hard drive.
>
> As usual, your logic escapes me. Why not just drop an
> ISA IDE controller in it, and run your CD and HD off it?
There were *8-bit* ISA IDE controllers? I've only seen the *16-bit* ISA
IDE controllers.
I did a bit of a Google Search and discovered that there is a company
right now which will sell me a new (or at least shrinkwrapped) 8-bit ISA
IDE controller for $29.99 which comes with LBA mode and jumpers for
address selection. Partition sizes up to 528MB! One IDE channel with
two devices.
http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=MCT-LBA
http://www.jdr.com/pdf/mct-lba.pdf
So it would appear that Minix can still be enjoyed on IBM PCs & XTs using
IDE drives.
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