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From: jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: BIOS disk drives
Date: 18 Dec 1993 23:03:04 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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I'm trying to run ***BSD on a 386 embedded DOS system.
This system will not have any hard drives or floppy drives, all
that it will have is 3 eproms which are solid state disk emulators.
I need this to be a standalone system, so booting from the ethernet
is not an option.
Does anyone have/seen a solid state disk driver for any operating
system(sources would be really helpful).
I assume the onboard DOS bios will emulator a real disk in the eproms.
I know that the ***BSD kernels boot by using the BIOS, but has anyone
ever written a UNIX block driver to use the BIOS calls for people
who don't have standard controllers. This would be a real help
for people with odd SCSI cards, to let them use their drives.
Sure performance would suck, but for my use performance plays no role.
Please E-Mail responses or any help to
jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu
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