There was a POTENTIAL RISK for your HARDDISKS with the previous
patch because it updated the concat_image_t object (BX_SPLIT_HD is on
by default). The behaviour of BX_SPLIT_HD is to open all filenames
incrementing the last letter. Guess what follows /dev/hda ?
You may now access block devices from within bochs, only
if --disable-split-hd is configured.
It has only been tested on linux and a WinNT guest.
There are issues with the current bios CHS translating scheme and
the guest OS translating scheme. For example my compaq system translates
a physical 38792/16/63 20GiB harddrive to
a logical 2586/240/63, which does not follow the bitshift algorithm.
I had to find a different PCHS that would translate in a compatible LCHS
I still have to investigate further, but I'm afraid everything I can do
will break some systems or the others.
Those issues should be explained in the documentation.
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