hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda) (03/27/88)
Hello wonderful net people...
We have a 300 Meg hard drive in Arkansas (don't ask me why it's in
Arkansas). It is an SMD drive. We have two UNIX machines, neither one of which
has an SMD interface. One, however, has enough source code so I could write
a driver for an SMD drive (i.e., it's got source code for its drivers, and
a .o file for the rest of the kernel). It uses a Multibus, and we have
documentation for a Xylogics 450 controller board. I don't know whether we
have the board; I think it's in Arkansas with the drive.
Anyway, my boss says, "Oh, they (the people in Arkansas who have our drive)
tried to get it to work, and they couldn't do it."
300 Megs means a great deal to me... like GNU emacs, and GCC, ans MH, and
hack, and of course news, and wonderful things that won't fit in the 6 Megs
of free space this machine has got left. So, could somebody please tell me
where I could find something highly informative about SMD, Multibus, disk
drives in general, that sort of thing... even if I can't get it to work, at
least I'll learn something.
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