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From: Dustin Cook on 13 Dec 2009 14:40 Virus Guy <Virus(a)Guy.com> wrote in news:4B1BC019.D95677F5(a)Guy.com: > "David W. Hodgins" wrote: > >> If you have a hard drive connected to the first ide channel, >> with the jumpers set to master, it will be seen by the bios >> as drive 80 (hex). > > That is a logical address. Not a "hardware address". The only > addressable hardware in the path between the OS and the file system is > the drive controller (be it IDE, SATA, USB, Firewire, SCSI, etc). Wow. Dude, seriously. I mean no offense when I say the following: Stop whatever repairs your doing, close your shop; get books on computer basic hardware, 101; for ibm pcs and compatables. Do lots of reading. I suggest you start with the old isa system and work your way up. You really don't know what's going on.... -- Dustin Cook [Malware Researcher] MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk |