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Subject: Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 01:25:04 +0000 (GMT)
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> Okay, here is my latest attempt to find a way to toggle A20M# that
> genuinely works on all machines -- including Olivettis, IBM Aptivas,
> bizarre notebooks, yadda yadda.

Can I suggest a slightly different hammer. Flip the A20 via the keyboard
controller and set the timeout to say 1 second. If that fails then kick the
0x92 stuff ?


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