Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:37:07 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: 100120.3121@CompuServe.COM, bde@zeta.org.au, Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow on Atlantis board Message-ID: <199611111337.AAA13786@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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I wrote: >The first 2 references have a separate section for floppies. They >agree with the 3rd reference for floppies. So the floppy case is >always broken, and the hard disk case is broken if BIOS implements >what the 1st reference says. Actually, although the bootstrap calls get_diskinfo() for floppies (if the boot drive is a floppy, in disk.c), %edi happens to usually be unused at that point, so there is usually only a problem for BIOSes that change %edi for hard disks. Bruce
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