Floppy drive not found by RELENG_5_1
Wilko Bulte
wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 3 13:25:21 PST 2003
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 at ans-netz.de
> @office: oliver.lehmann at mgi.de
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