On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:56:36PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040202214036.GB9170@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
>             David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> : It then doesn't matter which hole you ram the plug into.
> 
> Too bad the BIOS on up never got this concept...

Actually, I have a few machines on which the BIOS detects this and then
flips the registers corresponding to the two ports before loading the
MBR!

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud