Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:08:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux |
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On 21-Oct-98 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> a floppy would be much better >> and then again, what about ls-120? > Ouch, you'd need to have a full IDE/ATAPI driver inside the non-writable part > of the ROM, which I don't think is a good idea.
i know that is why i asked the question
i've built a couple of machines recently with no floppy (just ls-120) which after all will read/write ordinary floppies some motherboards i've used have a bios which treats an ls-120 as if it were a floppy and map it to a: etc. then again, some other motherboards do not do this.
i was proposing that the linux motherboard (with it's 2MB of cache :-) will do the former
my ideal would be something like the AOpen AX59Pro with 2MB cache and 8 SDRAM sockets and the floppy and power connectors in the "right" location. oh, and a watchdog timer like the wdt500 built in
-- simon
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