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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:04:20 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, souchu@firtech.lri.fr
Subject: Re: EIDE 2300+ Promise
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
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>Maybe surprising, fbsdboot.exe boots FreeBSD properly when 
>the external bios is activated... without EIDE2300.SYS loaded.

>May the Promise bug be corrected by DOS ?

Apparently.  dosboot does essentially the same things as biosboot
to convert to C/H/S values.

Bruce