Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:24:54 +0200 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <200305051224.54989.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EB563E4.4797B5CB@mindspring.com> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <3EB563E4.4797B5CB@mindspring.com>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003 21:03, Terry Lambert wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > You need to buy Adaptec controllers; they can boot CDROMs. > > > > yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like > > your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in > > sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have > > a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is? > > Never had that problem with my AHA1742 and my Toshiba CDROM... > like I said before: you need to buy a different controller. The only way I could see it being a problem is if the kernel used the BIOS to talk to the disk, and it doesn't... And as you say, buy decent controller cards :) Also, Adaptec cards don't necessarily have a BIOS on them.. (Low end narrow SCSI ones in particular) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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