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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!flyer!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Finding untranslated params for IDE drives (w/ pgm) Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 00:43:59 GMT Message-ID: <BwLopC.82n@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <1992Oct18.153007.28120@crash> <1992Oct19.053131.11296@tfs.com> Lines: 13 In <1992Oct19.053131.11296@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: >Terry feels that tehhe translation in IDE drives is done by the BIOS >support routines, though I was dubious about this (but hey >I don't have an IDE drive so what do I know) Terry feels wrong. IDE translation is done "on the drive", because you can hook up translated IDE drives to machines that know zilch about IDE, because IDE didn't exist when their BIOS was programmed. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem. IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92