From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 17:51:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA01370 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01365 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA19814; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:22:34 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602150152.MAA19814@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: EIDE 2300+ Promise To: souchu@firtech.lri.fr Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:22:33 +1030 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602141209.NAA03384@marsupilami.lri.fr> from "souchu@firtech.lri.fr" at Feb 14, 96 01:09:16 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk souchu@firtech.lri.fr stands accused of saying: > > Would it be a good hack to install the motherboard's int 13h in boot1 > (first part of the boot before entering protected mode) instead of the > external one in the interrupt table ? Then, the Promise bios would be > disabled for FreeBSD and enabled for any other system. Good hack I guess. Tell me; how are you going to find the motherboard bios's int13 entrypoint? > Nicolas SOUCHU - DEA d'Architectures Paralleles 95 - LRI - France -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[