Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Michael Daum
On Monday 28 April 2003 15:41, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:08:07PM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. Even if you got it detected, it wouldn't work well. Will likely cause the machine to crash or lockup. Floppy has never

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:37:19AM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: On Monday 28 April 2003 15:41, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:08:07PM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. Even if you got it detected, it wouldn't work well.

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Michael Daum
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. It vaugely works on UltraSPARC IIi - and no; not really I think I've used it twice in the past year and both of those times it would have been easier to transfer the data

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Elie De Brauwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected. Even if you got it detected, it wouldn't work well. Will likely cause the machine to crash or lockup. Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 04:40, Ben Collins wrote: Bottom line: no floppy on ultralinux, no conversion :( For god sakes, man. Force these people into the 21st century. We have LAN's and email for file swapping. I can't think of one good reason to have floppies. Use CDR's instead if you need

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 13:40, Ben Collins wrote: Bottom line: no floppy on ultralinux, no conversion :( For god sakes, man. Force these people into the 21st century. We have LAN's and email for file swapping. I can't think of one good reason to have floppies. Use CDR's instead if you

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Dave Love
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general It's not a Debian issue. The floppy on my works OK under Linux 2.4.19 (except for booting, which wasn't fixed by openboot upgrade I did, as I got the impression it should be).

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-30 Thread Martin
Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general It's not a Debian issue. The floppy on my works OK under Linux 2.4.19 (except for booting, which wasn't fixed by openboot upgrade I did, as I got the impression it should be). AFAIK Sun have stopped supporting boot

Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-28 Thread Michael Daum
Hi, I've made a test installation on a Sun Blade 100. Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected on booting. This was the case using the official debian kernels and aswell with the one I compiled myself (2.4.19). Can provide the .config if that helps. Can someone help? Any magic

Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

2003-04-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:08:07PM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: Hi, I've made a test installation on a Sun Blade 100. Everything is fine besides the floppy not being detected on booting. This was the case using the official debian kernels and aswell with the one I compiled myself (2.4.19).