Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:49:08 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: root@synthcom.com (Neil Bradley) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes Message-ID: <199601100619.QAA08312@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960109004341.4059B-100000@synthcom.com> from "Neil Bradley" at Jan 9, 96 00:47:09 am
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Neil Bradley stands accused of saying: > The other option is to write BIOS equivalent routines to do the dirty > work. This would work OK with ST506 style interfaces, but SCSI might be a That's actually bass ackwards 8) What we want is access to BIOS routines that do things that FreeBSD can't. Obviously, that means not remapping the b/c/d segments so that BIOSen that live there are still available. More specifically, the BIOS disk functions as provided by nonstandard disk controllers are the primary goal. > -->Neil -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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