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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] diskWriteRaw failure when booting MP
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Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2004 09:13:56 -0500
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That sounds like the interrupts are not routed correctly.
Which disc controller are you using?
Is there an option in the BIOS setup for the MPS version?
If there is, make sure it is set to 1.4.
Is this your only system (debugging is harder if so)?

--jim