According to Michael Graff:
>
>Didn't st506 and ESDI start to die around the time the 386 was coming
>out?
>

ST506 maybe but ESDI was around for a bit longer than that - IIRC ESDI
made it up to 1G full-height 5.25" before dying completely.  I had a
330Mb half height ESDI for a long time - long enough that I got bitten
by someone deciding to use the alt status register in wdc effectively
breaking my system.  This was some years back though.

>Personally, I say drop support for st506/esdi.  If someone wants to
>run NetBSD on such an old beast, let them stick to the last release
>that supported that hardware.
>

Is there any way we can #ifdef the code without making it too gross?  

>I honestly doubt there are many living, breathing, in-use machines
>with st506 as the interface.
>

Cannot argue with that :-)  ESDI may be still alive out there
somewhere though.

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