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Old 04-27-2007, 10:08 AM
Alfie Noakes
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Default BIOS Flash mapping


In the past I've done lots of embedded flash programming at work, so
decided to have a muck about with the flash BIOS in an old Pentium II
I've got.

The flash is a 1 Mbit (128k x 8) device and I can see a hunk of it in
memory at segment F000, but I can't find the other 64K (it's not at
E000), which means I can't get the flash ident commands to work
because I don't know the device base address.

I've tried hunting for the BIOS sig of the missing missing 64k
(0x55AA) at 64k intervals from 1Meg right up to the top of the address
space at 4G but with no joy. I've tried this using unreal mode under
DOS and also booting straight into a little bare bones protected mode
shell I wrote but still can't find the bugger.

And yes - I have enabled the A20 line.

The last BIOS team I worked on was for a 286 many years ago so I'm
probably missing something that's been introduced for later processors
but no amount of Googling has given me a clue.

So....... any clues?

Regards,
Alfie.

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