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- From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
- Subject: Re: The Case of the Missing RAM.
- Message-ID: <C0ppqA.ELK@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1993Jan11.162305.27414@nmsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:10:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.162305.27414@nmsu.edu> kduling@scf.nmsu.edu (Kevin J. Duling) writes:
- >I booted the system up last night with the Universal Boot disk and
- >Minix reported that there was ~760K total memory. Ok...I give.
- The universal boot disk uses the BIOS. That is why it is universal. Thus
- it runs in real mode with the consequences of that.
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- >And is there IDE controller code out there somewhere?
- The standard MFM (i.e. AT) driver, at_wini.c should work on IDE drives.
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- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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