Re: [PATCH] block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On 13-01-06 11:30 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > On 01/04/2013 07:27 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: >> This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in >> the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual >> ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1 >> interleav

Re: [PATCH] block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Hancock
On 01/04/2013 07:27 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1 interleave, giving performance on the order of 128kB/s. By the i

[PATCH] block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Gortmaker
This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1 interleave, giving performance on the order of 128kB/s. By the introduction of the PC-AT (286) these controllers