On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:04:43PM -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:04:43 -0500 > From: Jay Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ECKD-less system? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:57:10PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:49, Rich Smrcina wrote: > > > The real card reader could be ATTACHed to a virtual machine or can be > > > used to IPL a system native. > > Well, if it works. I thought very early on there was discussion that an > > actual 2540 doesn't really let you IPL Linux from it. Obviously the > > virtual reader does. I'd love to be proven wrong on this, btw. > > What, nobody's tried it with Hercules? WOT?
I'm sure I have, and have documented it to boot. (engl.) At the moment I'm nowhere near a REAL Dead_Tree copy of the Chapters I wrote at the time, and Corporate memory being as it is, I doubt that we would be able to find evidence that hercules _did_ at one time boot linux from the RDR. (Might be on the Marist archives somewhere ...) If it wasn't already 02:21 in the morning I might just punch me a /390 card-deck and see if it still works. Oh wait-a-sec, you're talking "Real Cards"(TM). Perhaps we could ask kind Mr. Fish to whip up a cute picture and some appropriate sounds of all the cards flying through the air (somewhat like the animated-gif that other company uses to keep the CPU warm while copying files) http://opa.gt.owl.de/~higson/download-pic.gif Richard -- Vegetarians eat vegetables. That's OK. It's the Humanitarians I'm worried about. Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
