On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Chuck Dickman wrote:
> I know the topic comes up here from time to time, so I thought the list
> might
> be interested.
> 
> I have been playing with a Qbus to IDE drive adapter for a while, and
> with some
> free time this Christmas, I got around to working on it and documenting
> it.
> 
> You can find information here: http://www.chd.dyndns.org/qbus_ide/
> 
> In summary, I have designed and built a Q22-Bus to ATA disk adapter and
> written drivers for 2.11BSD on my microPDP-11/73. The adapter is PIO
> only 
> (for now) and the driver only works with LBA capable disks. It does what
> I need for now. If anyone is interested in collaborating on extending it
> for use with NetBSD, I am more than willing to cooperate. I don't think
> my programming skills are up to writing a driver for NetBSD and I have
> a diskless MVII that I would like to get running.

I got a look at your web page, a NetBSD driver should be easy, as it's
already split to attach a different kind of busses. It should even work
with ATAPI devices :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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