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Re: Congrats to great boot floppies



On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:52:06PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
> 
> I've done three installs from scratch now on different machines and they all 
> worked great (lx164, as255 aka avanti and as200 aka avanti).
> 
> lx164 was done from alphabios via milo. people (like me) with
> half-flash boards (like sx164 and lx164) with Adaptec controllers
> should stay with alphabios as srm can't boot from Adaptecs (right,
> Jay ?). I'll file a (minor) documentation bug against the alpha boot
> floppies doc.

Actually, not correct now, but was correct before; LX and SX with the
latest (5.7, soon 5.8) FW can recognize and use Adaptec controllers
from SRM.

--Jay++

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