>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:59 AM
>To: Gilbert Baron
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [expert]
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>On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote:
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>> >> > I told you. Nobody ever asked before. It is the BIOS that
>handles this
>> >> > anyhow is it not. Version 7/1 should not se anything that
>7.0 did not.
>> >> > This message is useless, it does not ell why it is refusing to
>> >accept it.
>> >
>> >I think you will find that with Linux, the BIOS only handles the drive
>> >until the relevant parts of the kernel have loaded. After that, Linux
>> >handles the job itself.
>> >
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>> This would be stupid in my opinion. There are too many drives.
>It is like no
>> drivers would be written and it will all be in the Kernel..
>> It is The BIOS that makes an API that is constant and that is
>the way I am
>> sure it is done.
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>No, Ozz is correct. Linux does not rely on the BIOS for disk access - the
>BIOS is only invoked during initial boot, just long enough to allow the
>system to read the master boot record.
>Windows relies on the BIOS for I/O -- Linux does not.
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>Ironically, this lets you use large drives in Linux with *very* old BIOS
>and motherboards - Windows cannot make the same claim, as it relies
What you are saying is that you replace the BIOS with your own. Many old
boards did this to support things not yet supported in dos, like the Promise
IEDE board controller.
In any case, it should support today, anything, it supported yesterday. It
does not.
If anyone can explain why I can load 7.0 but not 7.1 and can explain why
this should be so, perhaps I could be convinced, but I doubt it.
>entirely on the BIOS. Yes, there are many drives -- but the BIOS still has
>to be able to talk to them, right? How big is the BIOS? 512k? Not many
>drivers would fit in there, I'd say.
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>That's why we have standardization.
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>If you still think this is a stupid way of doing it, please write a new
>operating system and let me know when you are finished. I will be sure to
>try it.
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>-Stephen-
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