Thanks Connie!
In the bios, under "Advanced", I see:
+--------------------------------------------------------+
- Processor Configuration
- Memory Configuration
- ATA Controller Configuration
- Serial Port Configuration
- USB Configuration
- PCI Configuration
- System Acoustic and Performance Configuration
+--------------------------------------------------------+
Ok, I'm assuming it can't be in the ATA Controller Configuration.
Everything there is Enabled anyway.
In the USB Configuration, I see:
+--------------------------------------------------------+
- Detected USB Devices
1 Drive
- USB Controller [Enabled]
- Legacy USB Support [Disabled]
- Port 60/64 Emulation [Disabled]
- USB Mass Storage Device Configuration
- Device Reset Timeout [20 sec]
- Storage Emulation
- TEAC FD-05PUB 3000 [Auto]
- USB 2.0 Controller [Enabled]
+-------------------------------------------------------+
Now, I hope you don't say I have to enable the Legacy USB Support
and the Port 60/64 Emulation, because (from a previous posting last
month) I have to have those disabled otherwise the keyboard and
mouse don't work.
Side question: is the "1 Drive" it detected the cdrom or the floppy?
Further data points:
Under the "Boot Options" in the BIOS, I see:
+-------------------------------------------------------+
- Boot Option #1 [PATA: SR244W ...]
- Boot Option #2 [Intel(R) MB RAID]
- Boot Option #3 [IBA GE Slot 0500 v...]
- Boot Option #4 [[EFI Shell]]
+-------------------------------------------------------+
Is one of the above a floppy?
Ideas?
- Larry
Connie Sieh wrote on 3/23/2007 2:33 PM:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>
>> Ok, here's my dumb question of the week (might have more next week).
>> Does SL 4.4 not support floppy drives?
>
> I indeed does support floppy drives.
> You should check that your bios has the floppy enabled. Sometimes the
> floppy will show as a scsi device.(because it is really usb and usb shows
> as a scsi device)
>
> -Connie Sieh
>
>> Reason I ask is I have an Intel Server System SR1500AL (mother board
>> is Intel Server Board S5000PAL), 1U rack mount, that came with two
>> internal disks (set up to be RAID 1, mirrored), a CDROM drive, and
>> a floppy drive. I need to add the Intel RAID driver at install
>> time and Anaconda is only giving me the choice of sda (I'm assuming
>> that's the hard disk) or hdb (is that the CDROM drive?) at the "Driver
>> Disk Source" page. If I choose hdb and have the appropriate floppy
>> loaded and hit "ok", it just comes back asking me to insert the
>> driver disk again. I'm pretty sure the floppy device should be
>> /dev/fdb (or fd0 or something like that).
>>
>> So, my suspicion is that SL 4.4 does not support floppies, which
>> is a bummer since our entire legacy server installation and rebuild
>> process (that I need to migrate to SL 4.4) is based on floppy
>> diskette kickstarts.
>>
>> Now, pending resolution of that major hurdle, I'm wondering
>> (assuming /dev/hdb is indeed the cdrom) how do I get the .img
>> driver file properly onto a cdrom from my Windows desktop (none
>> of our linux servers has a CD burner)? The rawrite program works
>> only (I suspect) with floppies. I tried using Roxio to put the
>> dd.img file on a cd-r, but that didn't seem to work either.
>> I suspect it's not in the right format. When I open the cd on
>> my Windows box, all I see is a file called dd.img, which, of
>> course, I can't open. When I do the same with the floppy I
>> created with rawrite, I can see the files contained in the dd.img.
>
>> Thanks!
>> - Larry
>>
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