[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:18:43PM +0000, Jack Richards wrote:
> IIRC, not winchester, but western digital after the original chipsets used and 
> developed by Western Digital.
> 
> Who remembers ms debug and the g = D800:0004 hack to execute low level 
> firmware formats on the controller cards ( or course this was esdi and mfm )

Yes!  Many happy hours spent optimizing the interleave factor (?) to
get the fastest possible disk access :-)

Rich.

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