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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: auto-reset when booting install floppies?
Date: 20 Sep 1993 22:29:15 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CDL93H.9q@luva.stgt.sub.org>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote:
>Does this mean that as with 386bsd-0.1 you have to boot w/ 174x
>in standard mode and leave it to the driver to switch the con-
>troller to enhanced mode?

Yep, this has been fixed in FreeBSD and NetBSD.

>(this is very annoying if you have more than one OS on your system
>because you cripple (from a performance point of view) the other
>OS's; in my case DOS and OS/2).

No kidding, Jordan complained about it  all the time, and finally Bruce
Evans and Charles Hannum must have gotten tired of listening to him and
fixed it. :-)


Nate
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