ESDI vs SCSI

Nova Software nova at ubbpc.UUCP
Sat Apr 15 05:55:51 AEST 1989


In article <2422 at cps3xx.UUCP> usenet at cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>
>is just fine. One word of warning, since the kernel needs the SCSI
>driver installed, you have to gen a kernel on a machine with a normal AT
>drive and make a new N1 disk. I assume this is the same case for ESDI.
>

True, SCSI requires the kernel twiddling.  False, ESDI doesn't: it works
out of the box (once you figure out what the low-level parameters are: drive
type, etc).  This is the case with SCO Xenix, anyway.



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