Subject: Re: Mac compatibles and NetBSD
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@mvista.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/26/1999 13:50:38
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Kevin Schoedel wrote:
> > 
> > Did the MacPPC port have to do anything major to the IDE driver to make it
> > work on the G3 desktop machines with Western Digital drives?  MkLinux uses
> > a derivative of your driver and it's giving us fits.  I tried to do some
> > patching to make it work on those, and that broke a bunch of CD-ROM drive
> > models.  Any thoughts?  What's the current revision on wd.c?
> 
> /*      $NetBSD: wd.c,v 1.193 1999/02/28 17:15:27 explorer Exp $ */
> 
> My B&W has an IBM drive, so I've seen no probmes. Or is the problem with
> Beige ones?

Yeah, the beige ones.  MkLinux doesn't have B&W support working _quite_
yet, though as of today, it's getting as far as the point where it tries
to read from the drive, fails to do so, and prints an unable to find
bootstrap.conf message.  Major, major improvement from a couple weeks
ago....


David