Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

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Doc. No.:	PR/96-077
Reply to:	Lynn Barra at lbarra@itic.nw.dc.us 


 X3 Announces the Approval for a New Project,
Enhanced BIOS Drive Technical Report 

Washington D.C., September 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, 
Information Technology announces the approval of a new project for a technical 
report for Enhanced BIOS Drive.  Technical Committee X3T13 - AT Attachment is 
responsible for work on this project.

This technical report is to provide a downward compatible method for expanding 
the current Fixed Disk Parameter Tables, a new method of accessing these tables, 
as well as providing extended BIOS services.

This technical report is intended to not only provide for the unlimited expansion 
of systems beyond two drives, but also to provide information regarding ATA-
compatible features enabled by the BIOS for OS and application software.

Inquiries regarding this project (X3 Project 1126-DT), should be sent to the 
Chairman of X3T13, Mr. Gene Milligan, Seagate Technology, PO Box 12313, M/S OKM 151, Oklahoma City, OK  73157.  Email: gene_milligan@notes.seagate.com.

The next meeting of X3T13 is October 25, 1996 in Honolulu, HI.  All organizations 
and individuals who are materially or directly affected are invited to participate.

An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, 
trademarks) is now being issued.  Please submit information on these 
issues to the X3 Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington 
DC  20005. Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us   FAX:  (202)638-4922.


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