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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com
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>NTDETECT runs in real mode and probes the HW.

>> when probed is a black art.  Any black magicians out there interested
>> in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-)

>We should do this.

>This is the only way we can hope to solve the bios-geometry problem 
>for instance.

Erm, the BIOS geometry problem is entirely in software, and "probing" of
the BIOS geometry has already been implemented by someone named phk :-).
(The problem is that association of BIOS disk numbers with FreeBSD
disk names isn't really implemented.)

Bruce