From: delman@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] atdisk2 v0.2 for 0.99.8
Date: 10 Apr 1993 16:40:32 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <1q6ta0$cvq@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>

This is release 0.2 of atdisk2 patch for Linux 0.99.8. The patch in
this package enables Linux to use a second AT-type (16-bit) hard disk
controller with 2 drives maximum attached to it.

In mid-February 1993, Muhammad Saggaf announced patches for using a
second AT-type HD controller. It turned out that there were others
also working on the same idea. This package merges the efforts into
one. Most of the codes in the patch are done by Muhammand Saggaf
<alsaggaf@Athena.MIT.EDU> and Joel Baldwin <qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US>,
I am only the "gift wrapper"! A similar patch was done by Neville
Chandler <nhc@mtdcr.att.com> around 0.95, however it never made it to
the public.

If you are using Muhammad's earlier patches, you should switch to this
patch because it fixes a bug. Furthermore, this patch uses the
assigned official block device major number for drives on the
secondary controller.

The files:

atdisk2-0.2.note --- a short note about the package
atdisk2-0.2.tgz  --- a gzipped tar file of the package

should appear in the following sites soon:

tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/BETA/atdisk
nic.funet.fi:pub/OS/Linux/BETA/atdisk
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/kernel/misc-patches

[If the files haven't appeared in the directories above, they can be
found in sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/Incoming.]

Have fun with it!

Delman
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