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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Finding untranslated params for IDE drives (w/ pgm) Date: 25 Oct 1992 21:52:40 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1cf4v8INNidl@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <BwLopC.82n@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1992Oct25.112332.25964@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Oct25.183912@eklektix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nosegoblin.css.itd.umich.edu In article <1992Oct25.183912@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >>Terry feels this from disassembling the BIOS *on board* an IDE controller; > >There is NO BIOS on an IDE controller. > That depends on your IDE controller. IDE controllers with BIOS are available. Usually around $60 to $75 -- primary application is to put an IDE drive in an old 286 or other such machine with old motherboard BIOS. The average $15 IDE controller certainly doesn't have one. Paul Southworth | ftp redspread.css.itd.umich.edu Consulting and Support Services | Anonymous Political Archives Information Technology Division | 100% 386BSD 0.1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | New submissions welcome <Representing myself. Everything I say is for educational use only.>