Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 21:15:50 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How hard would it be... Message-ID: <200004100315.VAA20433@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 04:33:33 %2B0200." <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> References: <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
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In message <4.1.20000410043058.00910dc0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Olaf Hoyer writes: : Well, if we are talking about the same device, rumors went that the BIOS of : that thingie may be reprogrammed via internet. BIOS can be reporgrammed via a program that was downloaded... But only if you called a certain ISP. : BIOS update in that way also involve disabling IDE parts... No. It doesn't. The updated BIOS is just very picky about what it boots. : I don't know if that is only booting or the whole part.. Only booting. Drives detect just fine. : Have seen some hardware rewiring on another mailing list to prevent that : mangling of BIOS. Dremmel tools and heat guns were discussed to allow socked parts to be more easily accessed. I'm trying to avoid that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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