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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jason Dictos <jason.dictos@yosemitetech.com>
Cc: 'David Given' <dg@cowlark.com>, Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Using int 13 calls in elks
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:54:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079038474.3120.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E50A109EE98AA049BAA09D725DB0714F01AD3BE1@mail.tapeware.com>

On Iau, 2004-03-11 at 16:22, Jason Dictos wrote:
> Fantastic, I've been looking for exactly this, a bios disk driver on a free
> unix style os. 

Its about the only one that can do it, simply because its 16bit real
mode so still BIOS friendly. You should never need bios int13 in a Unix
system because you can open the raw disk device and read/write from it
rather than going via the file system.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 16:22 Using int 13 calls in elks Jason Dictos
2004-03-11 20:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-11 16:05 Jason Dictos
2004-03-11  5:51 Jason Dictos
2004-03-11 11:08 ` David Given
2004-03-11 11:44 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-03-11 18:29 ` Bill Marcum

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