Rafal Boni wrote:
> I don't think so.  My primary NetBSD box started out as a 486/33 with
> dual ESDI disks hanging off a ISA ESDI card.  And this was a plain ISA
> box,  not a PS/2.
> 
> The disks have long since been replaced (since they could heat my appt.
> and made enough noise that friends mistook the computer for a small jet
> airplane 8-), so I'm not 100% sure if they were ID'd as generic ST506
> disks or as ESDI disks by disklabel, but it's probably worth a second
> look.

Hmm, true. Default wd(4) disklabel uses DTYPE_ESDI for disks
not identified as ST506. Perhaps a change to also check for
MCA bus presence would do? The assembler code for that check
would be next ~700 bytes however (slighly modified stand/lib/biosmca.S).
 
Jaromir
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