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- From: SESPC395@ysub.ysu.edu (Max)
- Subject: Hardware and Software fixes
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- Organization: Youngstown State University
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:12:06 GMT
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- Greatings, Programs! "Tron" if you didn't remember.
-
- I started this in hopes that this would thread into infinity. This would
- seem logical to have a continuing topic, with this subject on the net.
-
- The first fix I have is for the IBMers out there. This deals with booting
- on systems with IDE Hard drive controlers.
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- One of the symptoms, is a continus rebooting, or you never get out of the
- disk continuously resetting its self. There are two possible ways to fix
- one is to eliminate the reset code from bootblok.s, or replace it with a
- recalibrate drive (example to follow). Removing the reset code could be
- risky, because the system could lock, with out the code.
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- Replace, all incidents of the following code:
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- "xor ax,ax ║ reset drive" *
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- with the following code:
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- "mov ah,#0x11 ║ recalibrate drive"
- "mov dl,#0x00 ║ floppy drive 0 "
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- *note: ONLY replace lines that have the "reset drive" comment.
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- This should provide a bootable disk when you recompile the kernel.
-
- Max W. Blackmer, Jr.
- s0180873@unix1.cc.ysu.edu
- SESPC395@ysub.ysu.edu
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