-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 November 2001 03:02 pm, Expert wrote: > Is it possible? > > A bud of mine picked up an old > IBM PC server 500, and unless > it is not a bios problem, the stupid > thing keeps asking for a "Reference disc" > I don't know what it wants exactly, > I tried formatting a Linux boot disc for it, > but its too stupid to read it I think, > or else because the floppy drive is > 2.88 it cannot read a 1.44 disc.
Sounds like the BIOS setup routine is on a floppy disk instead of in Flash RAM. Compaq still does that, I believe. Still, a 2.88MB drive should read a 1.44MB floppy... - -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Why should we not accept all in favor of woman suffrage | | to our platform and association even though they be rabid | | pro-slavery Democrats." | | Susan B. Anthony, _History_of_Woman_Suffrage_ | | http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/essays/introduction.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8CBXcjTz5dS9Us5wRAmeuAJ0QEH1Xv/ghKzVajjLwbrv1DIGcdgCfRTbT j01vvNRCxIceaR55RJx53oc= =/3fq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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