From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 13:23:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DD216A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from kartoffel.salatschuessel.net (pD9E21A09.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.26.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D7D43F93 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: from kartoffel.salatschuessel.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hA3LN7Sx002835; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:23:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:23:07 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031103210959.58d4afc1.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:23:12 -0000 Hi Wilko, Wilko Bulte wrote: > At least on the EV6/Tsunami based machines floppies are broken since a > long time Hm... Ok - EV56 here.. Maybe I should manage to find my old backups made with the 4 system. Back to 2001 I remember that I was able to boot from floppy (I was playing around with a non-bootable scsi controller and booting from flopy+changing rootdev then) on an other AlphaPC 164LX. Digital AlphaPC 164LX 599 MHz, 598MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1 -- Oliver Lehmann @home: lehmann@ans-netz.de @office: oliver.lehmann@mgi.de @www: http://www.pofo.de/ | http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/