EDC(4)

🦋 EDC(4) — edc 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel Interfaces Manual page for edc — literally the IBM DASD Storage Interface ESDI disk driver. It's giving vintage IBM energy, and we're obsessed. 💖

💅 NAME 💅

edc — IBM DASD Storage Interface ESDI disk driver. Short, iconic, periodt. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

edc* at mca? slot ?
ed* at edc? drive ?

Copy these lines exactly, bestie — character for character, no cap. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The edc driver supports IBM MCA ESDI disk controllers and disks, most commonly found in IBM PS/2 machines. It's the "classic PS/2" vibe, iykyk. 💅

Supported boards include:

• IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
• IBM Integrated ESDI Fixed Disk & Controller

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• intro(4)
• mca(4)

Go read these next, bestie — the lore continues. 🌈

📜 HISTORY 📜

This driver appeared in NetBSD 1.6. Periodt. 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The driver was written by Jaromir Dolecek ⟨jdolecek@NetBSD.org⟩. Give them their flowers, fr fr. 💐

📝 NOTES 📝

Good news: the driver should also work properly on machines with more than 16MB of memory — it uses buffer bouncing to overcome the 24bit MCA DMA limitation. That's the technical caveat, bestie, so keep it in mind. 💀

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source/version: Debian · date: April 19, 2001 · manual: EDC(4) — cute footer energy, bestie. 🫶✨