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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:12:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MCA support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912101010550.20543-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199912092215.OAA03733@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive.  I'm fairly sure this
> > > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like
> > > the 2.88M drive.  I used the 1.2M drive and it works great.  I suspect a
> > > normal 1.44M drive would be good too.
> > 
> > The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8)
> 
> I can confirm the loader problem on IBM MCA machines with 2.88M drives,
> and you _CAN_ blame the loader if it does not make the _CORRECT_ calls
> to the BIOS :-)

Well, I stayed up hacking on boot1 last night and couldn't figure anything
out.  I did manage to get the 'correct' A20 setup switch implemented but
that doesn't change anything.

Color me confused.  Any ideas?

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