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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:47:40 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199603212347.AAA14666@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603210951.CAA29401@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 21, 96 02:51:32 am

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> The driver for old MFM drives should read the CMOS drive table.

No such thing like a CMOS drive table.  CMOS holds the drive type, but
the BIOS holds the drive table.  Each BIOS has got a very own idea of
what a particular CMOS drive type might mean.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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