Re: Booting a Compaq 120MB floppy
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Ian Redfern wrote:
>
>>superformat comes back and says 'Not a floppy drive'. Bit too much to hope
>>for, I guess.
>
>Hmmm. OK. And checking the dinstall stuff, it simply uses
>system(superformat). So maybe we need to play with superformat a little.
OK, I've had a quick look through the superformat source. I can play with
it a little, but without local access to a drive to see exactly how it
works I'm afraid there's not much I can do. I'm not an expert on this
stuff and I'm trying to work out how the fdutils code works from
scratch. Unless anybody else can do this, for now I think we'll have to
just document that we don't support some of the LS/120 functionality e.g.
making bootdisks with it.
It might be worth talking to the fdutils maintainer and the upstream
author too... I've just had a look at the upstream site
(http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/index.html) and I don't see any
mention of IDE floppies there... <sigh>
--
Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software smcintyr@allstor-sw.co.uk
Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
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