A86 Assembler - Re: PC boot block programming madness

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Re: PC boot block programming madness

Florian Liebig

2004-11-16, 6:51 pm

> I'll have to eat some crow. I've found that the Seagate SCSI ST-01
> H.D. Controller's bios does check for 0xAA55 at the end of a floppy's
> boot sector. It won't load the sector.
> Using a Future Domain SCSI Controller allows the floppy boot w/o the
> signature word. There's a difference in the controller bioses,
> obviously.

thank you for that information.
i'll rely on that, because my and all your research works say that 0xAA55 HAS to be present. a few hours
ago, i've read some antique books in our university that all say the same. even ide & scsi controller's
handbook ..
I update my loader code for all future uses.

Florian

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