On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> 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]
This looks like the floppy. Any choice there other than "auto".
-Connie Sieh
>
> - 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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