Subject: ALPHA (E)IDE driver Available
From: [email-masked] (Mark Lord)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 17:45:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

The new enhanced IDE device driver for Linux is now available for general
testing.  This is currently considered BETA software, though several of
us trust it completely for newer IDE drives.

This driver will eventually become part of the next development kernel (1.3.x)
as a supplement to the existing hd.c harddisk driver.

Current Features:
	- dual interface support, on one (not verified yet) or two interrupts
	- automatic drive identification & configuration for both interfaces
	- support for IDE power management features
	- support for PIO mode3 (drive only: won't work if your interface
		requires special programming) (off by default).
	- more streamlined implementation than the older hd.c

Planned Features:
	- IDE cdrom support (we're trying to get the nec260 guy on the team)
	- other goodies

Currently in sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming.

Begin3
Title:          IDE Device Driver
Version:        1.1
Entered-date:   October 24, 1994
Description:    BETA enhanced IDE (up to 4 drives) device support for linux
Keywords:       ide ata ata2 ata3 performance kernel disk device driver
Author:         [email-masked] (Mark Lord)
                [email-masked] (Delman Lee)
                [email-masked] (Petri Mattila)
Maintained-by:  [email-masked] (Mark Lord)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/diskdrives
                20kB ide-1.1.patch.57+.gz
                1kB  ide-x.x.patch.lsm
Platform:       primary/secondary MFM/RLL/IDE/EIDE/ATA2/ATA3 interface(s)
Copying-policy: Freely distributable/useable, (c) Linus & the authors
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