To: linux-8086@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: From: DG@emarkt.com Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:52:05 BST Newsgroups: linux.dev.8086 >Does anybody know where the heck you can still get 8 bit IDE cards? Also, does ELKS currently support >hard drives? If so, which interface, i.e. IDE, MFM, RLL, SCSI, ESDI, etc.? And what monitors? I have one >IBM Xt, with the IBM CGA card, and 2 IBM PCs, one with the original IBM mono card (NOT graphics like >Hercules, though I have original Hercules, too), and ST412 10meg MFM, and the other also IBM brand, with >Ching Hwa brand CGA and Plus Hardcard 20 (Proprietary RLL). Also does anybody know what the heck a >Corvus Bus Transporter (or Corvus bus something) does, and if that can boost the performance of my XT? Lots have other people have posted about the unique problems with XT IDE interfaces. ELKS will use anything provided there's a BIOS interface. In practice, if it's DOS compatible, ELKS can use it. As for monitors, I think the same applies; does ELKS use the BIOS interface? I can state from experience that it works with CGA, EGA, VGA and Hercules (actually MGA --- excellent system, I have the card in my `big' machine (== 486) as a second video system; extremely useful and a superb little monitor). And in answer to your third question: a *what*? David Given dg@freeyellow.com --
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