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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: 99.2 and Seagate ST-01
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <C0G6wr.C3x@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:23:11 GMT
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- In article <C0G6wr.C3x@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
- >I was using a ST-01 without the ROM under .99 and earlier, detected
- >by setting the OVERRIDE variable to 0xca000 in seagate.h.
- > This approach did not work in .99.2 . No disks or tapes were detected
- >in bootup. When I put the ROM back in the ST01 and recompiled without
- >the OVERRRIDE, .99-2 worked ok.
- > Anyone have any hints on what changed?
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- Yes. Support was added for a Future Domain card which is pretty much a
- clone of the Seagate. The bios is used to detect which card is present.
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- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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