; Project name : XTIDE Universal BIOS ; Description : Functions for generating L-CHS parameters for ; LBA drives. ; ; This file is shared with BIOS Drive Information Tool. ; Section containing code SECTION .text ;-------------------------------------------------------------------- ; LBA assist calculation: ; this is how to fit a big drive into INT13's skimpy size requirements, ; with a maximum of 8.4G available. ; ; total LBAs (as obtained by words 60+61) ; divided by 63 (sectors per track) (save as value A) ; Sub 1 from A ; divide A by 1024 + truncate. ; == total number of heads to use. ; add 1 ; this value must be either 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 (round up) ; then take the value A above and divide by # of heads ; to get the # of cylinders to use. ; ; ; so a LBA28 drive will have 268,435,456 as maximum LBAs ; ; 10000000h / 63 = 410410h (total cylinders or tracks) ; 410410h / 1024 = 1041h, which is way more than 256 heads, but 256 is max. ; 410410h / 256 = 4104h cylinders ; ; there's a wealth of information at: http://www.mossywell.com/boot-sequence ; they show a slightly different approach to LBA assist calulations, but ; the method here provides compatibility with phoenix BIOS ; ; we're using the values from 60+61 here because we're topping out at 8.4G ; anyway, so there's no need to use the 48bit LBA values. ; ; LbaAssist_ConvertSectorCountFromBXDXAXtoLbaAssistedCHSinDXAXBLBH: ; Parameters: ; BX:DX:AX: Total number of sectors ; Returns: ; DX:AX: Number of cylinders ; BH: Number of sectors per track (always 63) ; BL: Number of heads (16, 32, 64, 128 or 255) ; Corrupts registers: ; CX ;-------------------------------------------------------------------- LbaAssist_ConvertSectorCountFromBXDXAXtoLbaAssistedCHSinDXAXBLBH: push bp push si ; Value A = Total sector count / 63 xor cx, cx push cx ; Push zero for bits 48...63 push bx push dx push ax ; 64-bit sector count now in stack mov cl, LBA_ASSIST_SPT mov bp, sp ; SS:BP now points sector count call Math_DivQWatSSBPbyCX ; Temporary value A now in stack ; BX = Number of heads = A / 1024 mov ax, [bp] mov dx, [bp+2] mov bx, [bp+4] call Size_DivideSizeInBXDXAXby1024andIncrementMagnitudeInCX ; Heads must be 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 (round up) mov bx, 256 ; Max number of heads test dx, dx ; 65536 or more heads? jnz SHORT .GetNumberOfCylinders mov cx, 128 ; Half BX for rounding up .FindMostSignificantBitForHeadSize: cmp ax, cx jae SHORT .GetNumberOfCylinders shr cx, 1 shr bx, 1 ; Halve number of heads jmp SHORT .FindMostSignificantBitForHeadSize ; DX:AX = Number of cylinders = A / number of heads .GetNumberOfCylinders: mov cx, bx call Math_DivQWatSSBPbyCX mov ax, [bp] mov dx, [bp+2] ; Cylinders now in DX:AX ; Return LBA assisted CHS add sp, BYTE 8 ; Clean stack sub bl, bh ; Limit heads to 255 mov bh, LBA_ASSIST_SPT pop si pop bp ret