Op vr 17-10-2003, om 05:00 schreef dann frazier: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:24:05AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > I bought mine at a trade show in belgium. So I can't really give you a > > good shop to buy it from. It's marked 'tiny disk'. usbview tells me > > Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. It came with a 12cm CD containing > > manuals in English and Chinese and some software for windows. > > I also tried a 64MB keychain from a friend which works as well on both > > machines. So I think it's more a question of proper USB support in the > > BIOS. > > note that a usb floppy is not usb mass storage - your bios must have > support for usb mass storage to boot from the key chain, and this > is more rare than supporting usb floppy boot.
Most usb floppy disks have support for a legacy mode, in which the USB and the floppy disk together emulate a 'normal' floppy disk. That doesn't mean a usb floppy disk isn't a USB mass storage device; at the very least, it's supported by the usb-storage module under Linux. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft Windows, either scan your computer on viruses, or stop wasting my bandwith and remove me from your addressbook. *now*.
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