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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:59:23 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What I consider and odd install
Message-ID:  <199707140629.PAA08552@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970713231834.16170B-100000@misery.sdf.com> from Tom Samplonius at "Jul 13, 97 11:20:17 pm"

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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying:
> 
>   How about enabling BIOS support for more drives?  Boot easy should see
> the other drives, if the bios does, unless there is a design limitation in
> boot easy.

Booteasy, especially 1.7, is very old.  It dates from the days when 
most biossen only supported two drives (as previously mentioned).

There is no correct way of discovering whether the BIOS supports more
drives.

You're invited to find the booteasy source code and improve on it. 8)

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