Debian User wrote:
>
> Hey...
> Plex86 has been awsome at helping me develop my OS, but unfortunatly, besides
> the physical memory access bug I sent a fix for, I have no idea how to fix
> the following problem:
> After sending all the required parameters to the hard disk controller, I send
> the 0x20 (read multiple sectors with retries) command to the controller, and
> wait for an interrupt. Under vmware, as well as in a real system, the IRQ
> arrives and the data is read from the data I/O port of the controller.
> In plex86, no IRQ arrives.
>
> Any idea why an IRQ wouldn't arrive?
>
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This sector - is it C/H/S = {0,0,0}? I just scanned the hard drive
code quickly and see there is an abort for that sector for some
WinNT case, with no interrupt. Just a thought...
Also, if you have a GRUB loadable ELF file or whatever, put it somewhere
and post a URL so I can try it.
-Kevin
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Kevin Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.plex86.org/
