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From: dtynan@borax.kbss.bt.co.uk (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Old ST506 drives?
Keywords: st506, 386bsd
Message-ID: <1234@borax.kbss.bt.co.uk>
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:24:08 GMT
Organization: British Telecom
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Excuse the ignorance, but I've been out of the PC world for a while
now. I'm replacing my old UNIX box with a 486SX PC beastie, running
386BSD. Anyway, the new machine (which hasn't arrived yet) has a 210Mb
IDE drive. Everyone talks about IDE these days. I have two 80Mb ST506
style drives I'd like to use with the system. I presume that IDE is
some reduced form of ST506? Anyway, is it possible to get a 16-bit
ST506 controller which will handle two such drives? Secondly, will
386BSD support such a controller? Thirdly, I'd like the IDE (with 32K
cache) to be the primary drive. My scant memory of this says there'll
be a problem getting the ST506 controller to stay quiet, and out of the
boot process. Is there a port number confliction? In other words, is
this something I can do? Pushing my luck even further, I'd like to use
the QIC24 tape drive out of the old UNIX box. Is there an ST506
controller card with a QIC24 controller on board? What is the
recommended controller to buy, if I already have a tape drive?
Secondly, has anyone written any drivers for the Soundblaster and the
Pro board? I'm designing an AES/EBU interface board for ISA. I'll be
writing 386BSD drivers only. I may also put a stereo audio D/A and A/D
on the board. Is anyone else interested in such a beast? Finally, does
anyone have an address/phone number for Archive (for their DAT drives)?
Furthermore, does anyone with experience of this drive know whether or
not it'll read actual digital audio tapes (ones with audio on them)?
Thanks for the info, and now back to your regularly scheduled program.
- Der
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Dermot Tynan dtynan@kbss.bt.co.uk Contractor-at-large
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