knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen) (02/16/88)
I have heard rumors that the software for Sardis'
no-halt floppy controller doesn't get along well
with hard disks. Possibly due due its patching the kernel
to put the NMI code all above FFE00.
Anyway I had lots of problems this weekend trying to
make a bootfile with my Burke & Burke /H0 descriptor and
driver. It boots OK but you dare not iniz or open any windows,
or the system crashes. Note I'm still talking floppy boot.
Funny thing, if I boot an old bootfile without the hard stuff
and then just LOAD and INIZ the hard stuff, everything works
fine, but at an 8K penalty in system RAM space.
Another symptom: if under Sardis you do a Cobbler, about
120 bytes of garbage gets added to the end of the resulting
bootfile. Is that due to the patching that SDISK3 (their floppy
driver) does on the Kernel?
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Mike J Knudsen ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T)
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