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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Does any of the *BSD* systems runs on Thinkpad750 (w/2.88MB flooppy) Date: 22 Feb 1994 07:01:58 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2kcal6$9vl@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <CHETAL.94Feb18104512@gedny29.gedny.ml.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <CHETAL.94Feb18104512@gedny29.gedny.ml.com> chetal@gedny.ml.com (Pradeep Chetal) writes: >Does any of the *BSD* (NetBSD, FreeBSD) systems runs on an IBM Thinkpad >750 Ce (with IBM's 2.88MB floppy drive). Linux seems to have problems >and the standard distributions do NOT work (SLS, Slackware, etc..). There was a recent posting (comp.unix.bsd? comp.unix.internals?) that stated "what I had to to make it work with NetBSD" (no clue as to who "I" was in this context). The main gist of the "fix" was to hack the head count for the 1.44 entry so it would work with the 2.88 drive on the thinkpad. The 2.88 drive is not normally show with the stand INT 13 inventory, and you have to use the extended command (AH=18?) to get the info. To my knowledge, the boot blocks don't handle this correctly right now, but you could repeat the hack if you had another system that was running handy and has a BIOS manual (or recent IBM technical reference manual). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.