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June 1999

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Dual BIOS Motherboards
by Matthew Sullivan June 19, 1999

June 19, 1999

Hi All I don't recall anyone saying anything about this in the recent future, but I stumbled over the Specs to the new GigaByte motherboard (GA-BX2000) earlier... - It offers 'Dual BIOS' Follows is an extract of the related article on Gigabyte site: Enter the concept of DualBIOS. The intent of DualBIOS, as you briefly noted, is to provide a second BIOS in case of the infrequent occurrence of a "BIOS failure". Without going into a long explanation, if the primary BIOS "fails", the secondary BIOS takes over for the primary and you keep running. Effectively the secondary BIOS acts as a "hot spare". If the BIOS is actually good (electronically), but its data has become corrupted, DualBIOS provides a copy of good BIOS code (stored in the secondary BIOS) to allow you to use the included, automatically-activated utility to flash the primary BIOS "back to health." If the BIOS is really dead (electronically dead), then the secondary BIOS just keeps on going on its own. Rather a simple, but innovative, approach to this problem. The full story at: http://www.giga-byte.com/gigabyte-web/whydual.htm Probably on of the most useful boards on teh market I would say, though we would have to check that the first BIOS could be programed without altering the second BIOS code.... Yours Matthew Sullivan -- 'If you can't say anything constructive - don't say anything at all..'

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ATAPI-Lowleveldriver
by Stephan Müller June 2, 1999

June 2, 1999

Hi! I found an ATAPI/ATA-LL-Driver in c with 2 examples. You can get it at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.3/sac/utilprog/atadrvr.zip Perhaps somebody is interested in it. Anonymous, no copyright, no gnu, nothing. Ciao, Stephan - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(a)freiburg.linux.de with "unsubscribe openbios" in the body of the message

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