From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 03:00:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA09019 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:00:22 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA09009 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:00:20 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA17868; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:25:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506180955.TAA17868@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: HD Geometry dirty trick To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:25:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506162115.PAA17715@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jun 16, 95 03:15:34 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 662 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Alan F Lundin stands accused of saying: > > And there's no way to ask... there's a way to figure it out that mostly > > works, but which can run into LCF problems. > > If there's no way to ask, how does DOS do it? > Or does DOS just ask the BIOS to do it? That's right. > --alan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[