From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 9 20:16: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE6337B7BD for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 20:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17679; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:15:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA20433; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:15:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004100315.VAA20433@harmony.village.org> To: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: How hard would it be... Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 04:33:33 +0200." <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> References: <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 21:15:50 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Olaf Hoyer writes: : Well, if we are talking about the same device, rumors went that the BIOS of : that thingie may be reprogrammed via internet. BIOS can be reporgrammed via a program that was downloaded... But only if you called a certain ISP. : BIOS update in that way also involve disabling IDE parts... No. It doesn't. The updated BIOS is just very picky about what it boots. : I don't know if that is only booting or the whole part.. Only booting. Drives detect just fine. : Have seen some hardware rewiring on another mailing list to prevent that : mangling of BIOS. Dremmel tools and heat guns were discussed to allow socked parts to be more easily accessed. I'm trying to avoid that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message