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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!kodak!i249585 From: i249585@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com (Mike Lee x60019/SISD/2-11-EP) Subject: Re: Micro Channel Query Message-ID: <1994Mar21.041928.5608@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com> Organization: Eastman Kodak Company References: <2lqhst$1h9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Mar16.223156.4179@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com> <2mb8d8$6q7@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 04:19:28 GMT Lines: 33 In article <2mb8d8$6q7@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: >In article <1994Mar16.223156.4179@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com> i249585@kodak.rdcs.kodak.com (Mike Lee x60019/SISD/2-11-EP) writes: >]I don't know about FREEBSD or NetBSD, but I recently got 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit >]0.2.3 (only kernel related patches applied so far) running on PS/2 80. It even >]booted on PS/2 70 fine. >] >]In case you are interested, here are some details: >] >]* ABIOS is used for floppy and hard disk access >> > ^^^^^ > The magic incantation. > >Are you going to post the floppy an hard disk driver for this any time soon? > >I suspect you had to bump up the valid text range to make calls to ABIOS? > > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. Yes, I will post both drivers soon (plus locore.s, abios.c, ...etc). I could not encapsulate interfacing to ABIOS within just the drivers. It had to be setup during boot and its related information passed on to the kernel. You will see what I mean when you see the code. Mike L.