On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Michael R Zucca wrote:

> > Unfortunately, I am not so sure I could do that (never compiled kernels
> > before, lack of experience in the devleopment of such projects, and so
> > on...).
> 
> Well, if the IDE on the Macs is truly similar to that of the PC's, Atari's,
> and Amigas, then doing a driver for mac68k should as "easy" as taking the
> IDE driver rom one of the other ports and tweaking it to work for the
> Macs. No need to write it from the ground up.
> 
> Sound familar? That's how we got the esp driver for the Quadras. Allen
> ported the esp driver from the Suns.
> 
> > working ide driver, how could we use  the { install, booter } programs
> > with ide disks since they only support scsi for now (?).
> 
> This is a very legitmate concern. However, what we could do to start work
> on the driver would be to boot off a SCSI drive and mount an IDE drive
> to test. Eventually, though, the installer and booter would have to be
> re-written to handle IDE as well.

Here's a thought.  Many of the other ports have gone to native installs.
We have most of the pieces working now for such a feat.  This sounds like
as good an excuse as any to try to set something up along those lines.


Thoughts?
David

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