Subject: Re: wd.c driver, VESA support
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <is@Beverly.Rhein.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 06/14/1996 10:57:39
Olaf Seibert (rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl) wrote:
: AmigaOS has had that for years. In the Amiga 4000, there is a device
: called "scsi.device", however it controls the IDE bus. It even does
: attempt to implement user-level SCSI commands sent to it through the
: interface defined for that. This trick was apparently chosen for
: compatibility with programs that (wrongly) assume a disk should be
: accessed through scsi.device, as was the case on the Amiga 3000.

NetBSD/Amiga does the same with the idesc driver for the A4000/A1200 IDE
interface. 

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis