Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 20:05:46 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 biosdisk.c Message-ID: <XFMail.001102200546.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001102191848.A59731@elvis.mu.org>
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On 03-Nov-00 Paul Saab wrote: > John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >> jhb 2000/11/02 15:28:12 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/i386/libi386 biosdisk.c >> Log: >> The Number of Fixed Disks at memory location 0x475 is only 1 byte, not a >> 2 byte word. This fixes machines that probe 30-odd hard drives during >> boot >> in the loader. >> >> Submitted by: Helpful folks at Tyan via ps > > Actually it was AMI who told me this today. They were not completely sure > that it was support to be one byte, but they will be checking into it. > The next byte is actually where the harddrive structure begins and I > guess we have been lucky that it has been zero on other bios's. I checked Ralf Brown's Interrupt List after you called and it is indeed one byte long. > I first noticed this on the Tyan Thunder 251x series motherboards. > > -- > Paul Saab > Technical Yahoo > paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org > Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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