Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:18:49 -0800 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 biosdisk.c Message-ID: <20001102191848.A59731@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200011022328.PAA08268@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:28:12PM -0800 References: <200011022328.PAA08268@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 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!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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