[syslinux:master] memdisk: Fix order of sectors/track and bytes/ sector
syslinux-bot for Kenneth J. Davis
jeremyd at fdos.org
Tue Oct 23 03:42:07 PDT 2012
Commit-ID: 7307d60063ee4303da4de45f9d984fdc8df92146
Gitweb: http://www.syslinux.org/commit/7307d60063ee4303da4de45f9d984fdc8df92146
Author: Kenneth J. Davis <jeremyd at fdos.org>
AuthorDate: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:20:18 +0100
Committer: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:53:17 +0100
memdisk: Fix order of sectors/track and bytes/sector
Swap order of sectors/track with bytes/sector to match diskette
parameter table order (as pointed to by INT 1Eh).
References: (additional ones available if necessary)
'System BIOS for IBM PC/XT/AT computers and compatibles' by Phoenix
Technologies Ltd. copyright 1987,88,89 3rd printing 1990 ISBN:
0-201-51806-6 pages 61-62
'PC Interrupts' 2nd edition by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle copyright 1994
1st printing 1993 ISBN: 0-201-62485-0 page 211
Note: this fixes an issue with older FreeDOS kernels that expect this
structure to contain valid values.
Signed-off-by: Kenneth J. Davis <jeremyd at fdos.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
---
memdisk/mstructs.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/memdisk/mstructs.h b/memdisk/mstructs.h
index fecbff4..0b0dc07 100644
--- a/memdisk/mstructs.h
+++ b/memdisk/mstructs.h
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ typedef union {
uint8_t specify1; /* "First specify byte" */
uint8_t specify2; /* "Second specify byte" */
uint8_t delay; /* Delay until motor turn off */
- uint8_t sectors; /* Sectors/track */
-
uint8_t bps; /* Bytes/sector (02h = 512) */
+
+ uint8_t sectors; /* Sectors/track */
uint8_t isgap; /* Length of intersector gap */
uint8_t dlen; /* Data length (0FFh) */
uint8_t fgap; /* Formatting gap */
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