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1; Project name : XTIDE Universal BIOS
2; Description : Functions for generating L-CHS parameters for
3; LBA drives.
4;
5; This file is shared with BIOS Drive Information Tool.
6
7;
8; XTIDE Universal BIOS and Associated Tools
9; Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Tomi Tilli, 2011-2012 by XTIDE Universal BIOS Team.
10;
11; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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14; (at your option) any later version.
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16; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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23; Section containing code
24SECTION .text
25
26;--------------------------------------------------------------------
27; LBA assist calculation:
28; this is how to fit a big drive into INT13's skimpy size requirements,
29; with a maximum of 8.4G available.
30;
31; total LBAs (as obtained by words 60+61)
32; divided by 63 (sectors per track) (save as value A)
33; Sub 1 from A
34; divide A by 1024 + truncate.
35; == total number of heads to use.
36; add 1
37; this value must be either 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 (round up)
38; then take the value A above and divide by # of heads
39; to get the # of cylinders to use.
40;
41;
42; so a LBA28 drive will have 268,435,456 as maximum LBAs
43;
44; 10000000h / 63 = 410410h (total cylinders or tracks)
45; 410410h / 1024 = 1041h, which is way more than 256 heads, but 256 is max.
46; 410410h / 256 = 4104h cylinders
47;
48; there's a wealth of information at: http://www.mossywell.com/boot-sequence
49; they show a slightly different approach to LBA assist calulations, but
50; the method here provides compatibility with phoenix BIOS
51;
52; we're using the values from 60+61 here because we're topping out at 8.4G
53; anyway, so there's no need to use the 48bit LBA values.
54;
55; LbaAssist_ConvertSectorCountFromBXDXAXtoLbaAssistedCHSinDXAXBLBH:
56; Parameters:
57; BX:DX:AX: Total number of sectors
58; Returns:
59; DX:AX: Number of cylinders
60; BH: Number of sectors per track (always 63)
61; BL: Number of heads (16, 32, 64, 128 or 255)
62; Corrupts registers:
63; CX
64;--------------------------------------------------------------------
65LbaAssist_ConvertSectorCountFromBXDXAXtoLbaAssistedCHSinDXAXBLBH:
66 push bp
67 push si
68
69 ; Value A = Total sector count / 63
70 xor cx, cx
71 push cx ; Push zero for bits 48...63
72 push bx
73 push dx
74 push ax ; 64-bit sector count now in stack
75 mov cl, LBA_ASSIST_SPT
76 mov bp, sp ; SS:BP now points sector count
77 call Math_DivQWatSSBPbyCX ; Temporary value A now in stack
78
79 ; BX = Number of heads = A / 1024
80 mov ax, [bp]
81 mov dx, [bp+2]
82 mov bx, [bp+4]
83 call Size_DivideSizeInBXDXAXby1024andIncrementMagnitudeInCX
84
85 ; Heads must be 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 (round up)
86 mov bx, 256 ; Max number of heads
87 test dx, dx ; 65536 or more heads?
88 jnz SHORT .GetNumberOfCylinders
89 mov cx, 128 ; Half BX for rounding up
90.FindMostSignificantBitForHeadSize:
91 cmp ax, cx
92 jae SHORT .GetNumberOfCylinders
93 shr cx, 1
94 shr bx, 1 ; Halve number of heads
95 jmp SHORT .FindMostSignificantBitForHeadSize
96
97 ; DX:AX = Number of cylinders = A / number of heads
98.GetNumberOfCylinders:
99 mov cx, bx
100 call Math_DivQWatSSBPbyCX
101 mov ax, [bp]
102 mov dx, [bp+2] ; Cylinders now in DX:AX
103
104 ; Return LBA assisted CHS
105 add sp, BYTE 8 ; Clean stack
106 sub bl, bh ; Limit heads to 255
107 mov bh, LBA_ASSIST_SPT
108 pop si
109 pop bp
110 ret
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