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[ ... real mode/VM86() mode probing ... ]

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

Actually, you are still left with the problem of determining the
difference between BIOS chaining order and BSD controller/drive
probe order.

In other words, which controller is the boot controller in a two
controller system?  A three controller system?  Etc.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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