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    SubjectRe: reading/writing CMOS beyond 256 bytes?
    On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:

    > I wrote a little brogram to read/write the CMOS settings to a file on an
    > Intel L440GX motherboard using the outb() to ports 0x70 and 0x71. The idea
    > is to save the BIOS settings I like and then be able to blast them from
    > within Linux without having to tinker with BIOS setup.
    >
    > Unfortunately, it seems that some settings are not in the 128 (or 256)
    > bytes accessible this way, so they must be stored elsewhere.

    the L440GX has a lot of stuff attached to ipmi. Perhaps some of it is
    stored there? Just a thought.

    Peter
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