Subject: Re: IDE driver development?
To: None <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/12/1997 21:12:55
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:22:26 -0800 (PST),
"Colin Wood" <cwood@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> John Burg wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I am rather new around here, and I'm trying to figure out who (if anyone)
> > is currently working on IDE drivers.
> > If you can help me find this information, please let me know. It would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> 
> Although I could easily be wrong on this one, I don't remember anyone in
> the last year or so who has directly said that he/she is working on this
> project.  Feel free to jump in if you'd like to (and if there is someone
> out there secretly working on it, please let me know so I can update some
> of the project info :-)

Well, I'm not volunteering to work on it, but does anybody know the
register address?

It seems to me that the hardest part of supporting IDE on Mac would be
figuring out how the interrupts are handled.  After figuring out these
two unknowns, it should be a matter of compiling the wd driver into
the kernel..., shouldn't it?

Ken