From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:44:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:44:12 -0400 Received: from green.mif.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.42.8]:1032 "EHLO green.mif.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:43:55 -0400 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200106141025.MAA02059@kufel.dom> Subject: Re: obsolete code must die To: kufel!clueserver.org!alan@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (Alan Olsen) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:25:01 +0200 (CEST) Cc: kufel!nyc.rr.com!ddickman@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (Daniel), kufel!vger.kernel.org!linux-kernel@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (Linux kernel) In-Reply-To: from "Alan Olsen" at cze 13, 2001 07:22:38 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Daniel wrote: > > MFM/RLL/XT/ESDI hard drive support > > Does anyone still *have* an RLL drive that works? At the very least get rid RLL ? Curently no. But I have a dosen of working ST225 with a dosen of ST11M MFM controllers. Some of them ar\e still in use, mainly for booting purposes (LILO) ... > > of the old driver (eg CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE, > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PS2) > > I am not certain how much this stuff is still used outside the US. The XT > driver still being around does surprise me though. (Will that even *work* > on modern hardware? I didn't think you could get that card to work on a > 386.) Most of the boards work fine with 486. However, in most cases the BIOS low-level-format routine does not work on them (timing issues). So low level formatting needs a 386. I think all of them should work on 586+ if without BIOS... Andrzej