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I have not looked at a bus analyzer trace of a x86 BIOS in a long
time but I was recently sent one and good grief!!! can a BIOS be
worse that this???

This BIOS *never* reads the status before or after changing the DEV
bit. It *never* reads the status after issuing a Soft Reset or Device
Reset... It just delays about for some period of time (usually more
than 250ms) and goes on about it business.

I sure hope this is not typical of most BIOS code these days!


***  Hale Landis  *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
*** Niwot, CO USA ***   www.ata-atapi.com   ***


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