From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 31 19:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from chaoshorizon.com (mail.chaoshorizon.com [216.102.70.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B7637B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from chaoshorizon.com (shiva.chaoshorizon.com [216.102.70.190]) by chaoshorizon.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f113qu005003; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlb@chaoshorizon.com) Message-ID: <3A78DD7F.A24315D1@chaoshorizon.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:52:31 -0800 From: Debbie Bridygham Organization: chaoshorizon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IBM TP A21p, BIOS v1.04b (KYET27WW) works with FreeBSD! X-Priority: 2 (High) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I upgraded my A21p BIOS to v1.04b (KYET27WW) and inserted a 12GB hard drive from my A20m containing FreeBSD 4.2 (GENERIC install) and to my amazement, it not only didn't hang, but FreeBSD booted and ran just fine. The same hard disk in my A20m hangs the machine. So it appears that IBM has fixed the A5 partition bug in this version, even though it is not listed as fixed in the BIOS release notes. The only caveat seems to be that (at least under Win98 SE), there now seems to be a glitch in the keyboard processing with the new BIOS. On occasion the keyboard buffer seems to hang momentarily (a keypress sometimes requires an additional keypress to be flushed from the keyboard buffer). Debbie Bridygham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message