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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: auto-reset when booting install floppies? Date: 20 Sep 1993 22:29:15 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <27larr$43j@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <748206430rommel.root@ars.muc.de> <almCDHGnz.CHv@netcom.com> <CDL93H.9q@luva.stgt.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CDL93H.9q@luva.stgt.sub.org>, Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote: >Does this mean that as with 386bsd-0.1 you have to boot w/ 174x >in standard mode and leave it to the driver to switch the con- >troller to enhanced mode? Yep, this has been fixed in FreeBSD and NetBSD. >(this is very annoying if you have more than one OS on your system >because you cripple (from a performance point of view) the other >OS's; in my case DOS and OS/2). No kidding, Jordan complained about it all the time, and finally Bruce Evans and Charles Hannum must have gotten tired of listening to him and fixed it. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me