On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Here are the drivers available on the "hd.img" boot floppy, that > apparently are not PCI SCSI drivers (since they are not in the > pcitable) : > > [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] for i in `mdk-stage1/mar/mar -l >kernel/all.modules/2.4.19-16mdkBOOT/hd_modules.mar | egrep -v >'floppy|scsi|sd_mod|fat|reiser|isofs|loop' | perl -ne '/\s*(\S+)\.o/ and print >"$1\n"'`; do grep $i /usr/share/ldetect-lst/pcitable >/dev/null || echo $i; done > NCR53c406a > aha152x > aha1542 > psi240i > qlogicfas > qlogicfc > wd7000 > sim710 > sym53c416 > t128 > ultrastor > 53c7,8xx > > > Since they are not in the pcitable, these drivers have zero > chance to be automatically loaded when booting from "hd.img" - > still, of course, people can manually select them, most often > need to input manually some io port options etc, and then they > can use them to perform a disk install. > > Since we are always short in diskspace on the boot floppies, > could enlightened people of you help me guessing if these can be > safely removed because they are so old/broken/unused/anything? On > the opposite, if some of these drivers ring a bell for you as > drivers you heard people still use much, I'd like to know that as > well. >
I have a box with an aha1542 adapter. I haven't tried installing from a floppy (no floppy drives in the house). It's been running cooker updated from the net for so long I have no idea if any of the recent installers can install on it. I'd be very upset if they didn't, as would my kid who uses it as his main box, if it should ever need a fresh install. -- Murray J. Root
