Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> This is likely too. Floppies have mechanical moving parts that are GK> more prone to failure than other pieces of hardware.
The eerie part is that the diskette drive worked find right up until the moment where I tried to boot from it. Now it doesn't seem to work at all, or at least the BIOS and OS don't see it. It still makes the same noises when the system is reset, though. Additionally, I can't persuade the BIOS to boot from CD, even though it's supposed to be able to. GK> Hmmm, that could be a problem. Any chance of installing a SCSI GK> controller to one of the other machines? :-) The FreeBSD machine already has a SCSI controller, but I use it only for the external tape drive. I have a much fancier Adaptec SCSI controller somewhere, but it wasn't supported by my old hardware. I don't know if it would be supported by the new hardware. In any case, I don't like to move hardware bits and pieces around; it just encourages hardware problems. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
