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echo: locsysop
to: Keith Richardson
from: Brenton Vettoretti
date: 1996-03-26 01:31:00
subject: Copying EPROMs

KR> thats no problem, the only constraints are that inserts are a problem,
KR> and, as brenton pointed out, some roms have checksums. i reburnt the
KR> bios roms in my old '286 in order to facilitate using ide drives, the
KR> thing winged every time that i booted up coz the checksum didn't.

A standard AT BIOS ain't a problem as it's checksum location is
easily found and changed. The later AMI BIOS's were a *BASTARD* as
they had a few checksums hidden within them and the drive table was
one of them. I found a neat solution to that though...The source
code for Award v3.01 :)

Cheers, Brenton
@EOT:

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