Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:33:52 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1 Message-ID: <20031103213351.GB42463@cicely12.cicely.de> 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. Booting floopy and changin rootdev doesn't require floppy support in kernel. But it's still interesting - I have no floppy either :( I thought the tsunami issue was non working floppy and not non existing? >From my (x86) notebook, which has a removeable floppy I know that hints are not enough for detecting drives - maybe SRM handling for this is broken in -current. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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