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Re: CDROM access broken?
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: CDROM access broken? |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jul 2004 00:38:34 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i |
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:29:50PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 05 July 2004 10:11, Robert Millan wrote:
> > I know how BIOSes basicaly work, but I don't have much idea. If you
> > tell me what I should try or give me some clue, I'll be glad to help.
>
> In this context, BIOS is just an implementation of an API. It's not very
> different from using a C library in a sense. So if you can write a
> normal program, you have no barrier to learn how to use BIOS. I'd
> recommend you looking at Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. It's available
> freely online in many different formats (such as plain text and html).
>
> [...]
Thanks for the details, I'll try to fix this in the Manresa hackmeeting
(this week).
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)