Re: Isn't the IDE-Doubler machine independent?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Nicolas Bruno BASTIEN wrote:

> My opinion is that you guess well. Let's keep it confined to Amiga.
> Most of other arch often have at least two IDE interfaces or can easily
> get SCSI adapter. Amiga has only one IDE interface and it is not so easy
> to have SCSI adapter (I am also thinking about BlizzardPPC SCSI that is still
> supported) so IDE doubler, that is somehow a good thing, would be useful
> on Amiga, but on other arch ? I don't think so.
>
> I guess too that doing it as Amiga specific would be easier for NetBSD 
> maintener
> than doing it as generic, wouldn't it ?

        The Acorn RiscPC (acorn32) is another platform that only comes
        with a single IDE adaptor and could benefit from an IDE doubler
        as much as an amiga... (I think benefit is the right word :)

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