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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:25:10 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1
Message-ID:  <20031103212510.GA8073@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
References:  <20031103210959.58d4afc1.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20031103211313.GB7891@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031103222307.2cff1663.lehmann@ans-netz.de>

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> 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.

ISTR I could at some point boot my DS10 but that was all. And memory is very
dim. I have an open PR on the floppy / Tsunami thing but never was able to 
do much about it.

> Digital AlphaPC 164LX 599 MHz, 598MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
> 
> 
> -- 
>  Oliver Lehmann
>         @home: lehmann@ans-netz.de
>       @office: oliver.lehmann@mgi.de
>          @www: http://www.pofo.de/  |  http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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