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From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)?
In-Reply-To: veit@mururoa.gmd.de's message of Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14: 58:29 GMT
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	<DERAADT.93Aug24170735@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Aug25.145829.28088@gmd.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 21:56:30 GMT
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In article <1993Aug25.145829.28088@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
   In article <DERAADT.93Aug24170735@newt.fsa.ca>, deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
   |> It's not that our machines are especially fast. It is because our
   |> machines come with extremely fast hardware implimentations of the
   |> FAST-A20 gate hack (one of the most disgusting things in the PC
   |> architecture, which all machines from the AT and up have.)

   Perhaps you should disable FAST-A20 (in the BIOS setup) or disable fast
   gateA20 in the boot loader, and return to the old fashioned
   method via the kbd controller (which should still work with
   common PCs except IBM PS/2).

My machine's BIOS does not allow me to disable FAST-A20.

This bug should be fixed in the bootroms. Perhaps you didn't read far enough
to see that there is a fix available from someone.
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