From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 14:47:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADBB16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2343D48 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:47:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (mx.slovenia-cafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0109.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3386E1C001B0 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:47:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0109.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 09B651C001AB for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:47:43 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050120144744399.09B651C001AB@mwinf0109.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:47:43 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <161779932.20050120154743@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050120100242.GA1451@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <1498696253.20050119202447@wanadoo.fr> <20050119194228.7248.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> <515597134.20050119211009@wanadoo.fr> <20050119202834.GA1041@gothmog.gr> <885296200.20050120043027@wanadoo.fr> <20050120100242.GA1451@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:47:45 -0000 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