On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > My m77 has weird problems reading the floppy drive. I'm fairly sure this
> > > has everything to do with code in the loader/bootstrap that doesn't like
> > > the 2.88M drive. I used the 1.2M drive and it works great. I suspect a
> > > normal 1.44M drive would be good too.
> >
> > The loader just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 8)
>
> I can confirm the loader problem on IBM MCA machines with 2.88M drives,
> and you _CAN_ blame the loader if it does not make the _CORRECT_ calls
> to the BIOS :-)
Well, I stayed up hacking on boot1 last night and couldn't figure anything
out. I did manage to get the 'correct' A20 setup switch implemented but
that doesn't change anything.
Color me confused. Any ideas?
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