Hi! 24-Июл-2005 02:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [email protected]:
EA> My point is: There ARE BIOSes which actually support access to EA> 1024 cylinders or to 2^28 LBA sectors or even 2^32 LBA sectors EA> but which have a BUG which prevents them from reporting that. EA> For SUCH BIOSes it would be very nice to have a SYS CONFIG option EA> which allows bypassing of the limits! 1. such BIOSes rarely (if exist). 2. you have no ways to know precisely if there is only reporting bug or accessing bugs too. 3. in any case, you may/should patch BIOS through external specific drivers like Ontrack Disk Manager (with its DDO). So, I completely disagree in this question (implement in kernel hacks to bypass BIOS info or BIOS completely). ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
