Hale Landis (
hlandis@ibm.net
) has written a number of "how it works"
documents dealing with boot sectors, MBRs and partition tables. These are
available in a ZIP archive from
ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/otherdocs/pc_systems/how_it_works/
.
Also, he has an extensive description of BIOS types, invaluable for programmers,
a "Facts and Fiction" series that dispels a couple of common myths, and
more. These, together with the How It Works documents (in case you cannot FTP)
are available from his mail server; to get started, send an e-mail message
To: hiw@sugs.tware.com
help
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This server, like the WD FTP site (in /pub/standards) has a copy of the ATA-2
standard as well.
ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/
, a Western Digital FTP site,
contains loads of material pertaining to the SFF Committee, the ATA,
ATA-2 and ATAPI standards, the Phoenix Enhanced BIOS spec, and
archives of the various reflectors (mailing lists, such as the ATA-2
and ATAPI lists). Look in /pub/standards/; the SFF stuff is
in /pub/standards/sff/specs/, the x3t13 in
/pub/standards/x3t13/. The mailing lists themselves can be
accessed through
majordomo@dt.wdc.com
; send a message
To: majordomo@dt.wdc.com
help
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to get more information.
ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io
also contains information
about ATA, ATA-2, ATA-3, SCSI-2 and many more standards.
ftp://www.ptltd.com/pub/phoenix_docs/
has many Phoenix specs
such as their Enhanced BIOS document.
ftp://hddtech.millcomm.com
Tech sheets (I really have to
take a look there someday).
Other pointers are appreciated.
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