Hi!
2-Дек-2004 23:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (9000 VAX) wrote to
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>> If you want to use non-BIOS disks,
...which not recognized by BIOS at startup or which should be
removable, with swappable media...
>> you will have to load a driver which
>> offers simple sector read / write. You can load the kernel into RAM and
9V> I am a little bit confused here. Is non-BIOS disk an HD that the BIOS
9V> doesn't know of (through manual setting, or auto-detection)?
Yes. Or which should _not_ be recognized by BIOS, because standard
disks doesn't allowed to be swapable.
9V> If so, Do I need to provide a different driver for each different disk
9V> that I attach to my controller?
You may provide _one_ driver, which handles many drive letter for each
disk. This is only your decision.
9V> I did some reading and I found that a BIOS might not be difficult if I
BIOS _is_ a difficult beast.
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