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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:47:43 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU
Message-ID:  <161779932.20050120154743@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20050120100242.GA1451@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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Giorgos Keramidas writes:

GK> This is likely too.  Floppies have mechanical moving parts that are
GK> more prone to failure than other pieces of hardware.

The eerie part is that the diskette drive worked find right up until the
moment where I tried to boot from it.  Now it doesn't seem to work at
all, or at least the BIOS and OS don't see it.  It still makes the same
noises when the system is reset, though.

Additionally, I can't persuade the BIOS to boot from CD, even though
it's supposed to be able to.

GK> Hmmm, that could be a problem.  Any chance of installing a SCSI
GK> controller to one of the other machines? :-)

The FreeBSD machine already has a SCSI controller, but I use it only for
the external tape drive.  I have a much fancier Adaptec SCSI controller
somewhere, but it wasn't supported by my old hardware.  I don't know if
it would be supported by the new hardware.

In any case, I don't like to move hardware bits and pieces around; it
just encourages hardware problems.

-- 
Anthony




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