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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: users - not entirely clear on the concept
Date: 17 Jun 1994 20:34:44 +0200
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rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) writes:
>Linux simply asks the BIOS at boottime (while still in 16-bit real
>mode) for the disk geometry, and then believes it. ...
Just curious:
My current machine boots off an IDE, but mainly uses a 1.2Gig SCSI
drive. I've disabled the SCSI BIOS, since i do not need it and i'm
tired of the Adaptec waiting for half an hour :) at boot time just
to tell me it couldn't find disk D: there...
What would Linux have done in this situation where the SCSI disk cannot
be reported by any BIOS at all?
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