Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: lab@gta.com (Larry Baird) Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG, rizzo@aciri.org Subject: Re: non-standard floppy formats ? Message-ID: <200012090202.eB922NW34779@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <200012072203.RAA39082@gta.com> from Larry Baird at "Dec 7, 2000 5: 3:36 pm"
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> I think the problem is in boot1.s of boot2. Look at the function > read(). The first thing is does is do an int13 call to get the > BIOS configuration of the floppy. The result that is causing > you a problem is "cylinders per track" (returned in register cl). > You could hardcode the code after the int13 to set register cl > to your new floppy geometry. tried that, but it seems that the bios does not like that. Probably (at least on the system i tried) it still checks for the sector number to be admissible for the geometry it knows. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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