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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, dshin@ponder.csci.unt.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot floppy problem with Intel Atlantis motherboard (Mac
Message-ID:  <199604252320.QAA08230@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960425132336.23340B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Apr 25, 96 01:23:54 pm"

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> On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > > Use -c and turn off all the sio ports (especially sio3).  
> > 
> > Is this the S3 video chip vs. COM4: conflict?
> 
> No, it's the Mach64 vs. COM4: conflict.  :)

No, it't the IBM design idiots 8514 vs COM4 scew over because all the
world is going to become PS/2 compliant.  (PS/2 compliant means thall
shall decode 16 bits of I/O address for serial and video ports, independent
of weither this is ISA, MCA or on the motherboard.)
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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