In article <BrtBz5.Jyw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ral45184@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (sPiNdRy ) writes:
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>     Has anyone tried using a perstor controller with linux???
>   I think they've had problems with DOS 5... not quite sure why.
>   But as far as I know, the perstor changes the format on the drive
>   to increase the capacity... and then reports to bios the correct
>   (augmented) size.  Will this work with linux?  I have the
>   opportunity to buy such a card...
>
>    thanks
>
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  The Perstor card looks like an ST506 MFM interface.  It's worked for me
on Xenix and Interactive 2.2.2.  I'm running Esix 4.0.3 w/SCSI disks right
now so I haven't tried Linux on anything other than an old MFM drive
that Perstor won't work with (an original 30 meg AT drive ;-)).

  Make sure you don't pay much for that Perstor card.  Perstor went 
out of business about a year and a half or so ago.  

Steve Hite
shite@sinkhole.unf.edu