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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Follow on Atlantis board
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I wrote:
>The first 2 references have a separate section for floppies.  They
>agree with the 3rd reference for floppies.  So the floppy case is
>always broken, and the hard disk case is broken if BIOS implements
>what the 1st reference says.

Actually, although the bootstrap calls get_diskinfo() for floppies
(if the boot drive is a floppy, in disk.c), %edi happens to usually
be unused at that point, so there is usually only a problem for
BIOSes that change %edi for hard disks.

Bruce