Osamu Ishibashi <isibasi@nsknet.or.jp> has submitted a patch that may solve difficulties some 16-bit Minix users have had using the bios hard disk driver. His message and a patch can be found at: http://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/minix.2.0/2.0.0/fixes/xfix-286mode.

asw 22 Feb 98

Note added 12 June 1998: Please see also an alternative proposed by Kees Bot in May 1998. It is possible that neither of these solutions is correct for all machines.

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