Re: AW: DOC vs. IDE

2002-10-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:28:23 -0600 (MDT), Ronald G Minnich wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote: That actually sounds like a brilliant idea. I wonder if anyone on the list can confirm performance... does the CFcard appear as a standard IDE disk or is there a driver or

booting ide flash from latest etherboot (CVS)

2002-10-23 Thread Ronald G Minnich
It has a problem getting to flash, but it actually got worse. It doesn't see the flash disk at all in this version. To sum up: fallback + rc4.eb5 -- finds disk, boots it automatically normal + rc4.eb5 -- type 'D' to it, then it finds disk and boots normal + rc5 -- never finds the disk,

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Adam Sulmicki wrote: cvs-freebios/freebios/src/pc80/keyboard.c Ollie, didn't KM Liu tell us how that was done? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: RLX 800i Info?

2002-10-23 Thread Bari Ari
Mark Weinstein wrote: I don't think that should be a problem. What I am concerned about the most is that from what I understand, since teh RLX can remotely manage/monitor their blades, I didnt know if you would still be able to poll or information or not. Have you done one of these installs?

Re: RLX 800i Info?

2002-10-23 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mark Weinstein wrote: Does anyone have any specific info on teh RLX 800i port of LinuxBIOS? I have the immediate need to get one of these blades up and running with Etherboot, but would like a little more information. We did that work here and I have a 6-node 800i rack

Re: 810LMR LinuxBIOS setup

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:43, James Alton wrote: Hello again, I had previously written about which BIOS chip to use, I am wondering now if video and sound will work on the 810LR. I have examined the CVS code and it seems that it doesn't really do anything but set up irq tables for vid/snd,

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread ollie lho
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:53, Ronald G Minnich wrote: should we put that better version of keyboard init into linuxbios? ron The code was used to debug one of our customer's prototype which wired Keyboard and Mouse signal. I have no idea why I didn't commit it to freebios cvs at that time.

Re: AW: DOC vs. IDE

2002-10-23 Thread Dave Dworin
I doubt if CF is reliable to replace IDE disks. I own a CF digital camera and have experienced data loss. It seems that data loss/file corruption is quite common on CF. Any different experience? Dave From: Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Richard A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: AW: DOC vs. IDE

2002-10-23 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dave Dworin wrote: I doubt if CF is reliable to replace IDE disks. I own a CF digital camera and have experienced data loss. It seems that data loss/file corruption is quite common on CF. Any different experience? I don't think your sample set is really exhaustive enough

Re: PIC question. (fwd)

2002-10-23 Thread Adam Sulmicki
yay, keyboard works. now I have fully functional lilo classic from under LinuxBIOS. Thanks to everyone for help. (the fix was to remove the broken keyboard init code from the bios). -- Adam http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers