From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 21 15:51:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26545 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA26528 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA12363 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:50:47 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA28383 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:50:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA14666 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:47:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603212347.AAA14666@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:47:40 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603210951.CAA29401@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 21, 96 02:51:32 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)