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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!bnr.co.uk!demon!centrix.demon.co.uk!damian Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development From: damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (Damian Ivereigh) Subject: Re: EISA CONFIG (was: AHA1742) References: <1993Jul13.172743.15441@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: Centrix Distribution: world X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 23:15:06 +0000 Message-ID: <9307140053.aa03714@post.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 24 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: : In this same vein, isn't it about time that we got some EISA configuration : code ported to something other than DOS? : : I don't think the data files would be required to change at all, and we : could use the PCFS to get them off their distribution floppies on demand : like the DOS-based EISA configurators. : : Anyone else think this is a good idea? Yes an excellent idea. Although isn't there a problem in that basically you are messing about in people's CMOS setup, i.e. that it is all proprietry to each manufacturer. I never found you use the config disk reliably from one m/c to another. Damian -- +-----------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+ | Damian Ivereigh | damian@centrix.demon.co.uk | "Sodomy non sapiens" | | Twickenham | damian@cix.compulink.co.uk | - Granny Weatherwax | | London, UK | Tel +44 81 891 1224 | | +-----------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+