Hi,
first of all, I wish to thank all the FreeDOS developers, because I successfully 
upgraded the BIOS of our new diskless compact-PCI rack, equipped with a pentium class 
CPU.

The task was a little tricky: since I had no compact flash card units on any of the 
available x86 PCs, I had to use Bochs 2.1 on a MAC-I-Book with Linux-PPC, with FreeDOS 
ODIN 0.6 (1.44) bootdisk image. Within the Bochs simulation I successfully SYSed the 
63MB compact flash disk, pre-fromatted with a single FAT16 partition, and FreeDOS ran 
with no warning or errors.

The rack booted OK from the card, and the kernel wrote the following warning:

--- start of hand-written report---
Kernel 1.1.33 [Jan 31 2004]
...
 -InitDiskDrive is too large to handle, using only 1st 8 GB drive 80 heads 8 sectors 
32, total=0xea00-00000001
 C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0MB size= 61MB
--- end of hand-written report---

Then it shows two more times the warning "Drive is too large ... 0xea00-00000001".
The disk is seen by Linux on the PPC as a C490-H8-S32, while on the rack it is 
reported by fdisk /info /tech as:

--- start of hand-written report---
 current fixed disk drive: 1    (TC:488 TH:7 TS:32)

 Partition   Status  Mbytes  Description  Usage  StartCyl  EndCyl
  C:  1  6     A       61    FAT16         100%     0       488
--- end of hand-written report---

Anyway, despite of those warnings, FreeDOS worked, and I successfully upgraded BIOS.

I suspect a BIOS problem here, since:

 1 - The disk is seen as > 8 GB, while it is < 64MB
 2 - The number of heads and cylinders does not match

But I'm not sure.
There's something else I can do to discover the cause of the problem?

Ciao




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