[clue-tech] Floppy drive headache

[Richard Knechtel]

Did you already try going into your BIOS's setup and see if there is an
option to set boot devices? Mine (From around 2000 - 2001) allows me to set
up to 4 devices in priority. I set mine to:
Floppy, CDROM, 1st IDE, 2nd IDE.

On 3/12/07, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> So I was all set to upgrade my old, old, FreeBSD installation on one of my
> boxes - backed up config files, important data etc.
>
> Then I hit a speed bump - it doesn't want to boot from CDrom? Hm, this box
> is from 2000, but I'm pretty sure that worked before. Shrug. So I made
> boot
> floppies, and try to boot from those.
>
> Oops, floppy error 02b0. The speed bump turns into a show-stopper. What
> does
> that mean? Googling...turns out that some people can fix this by swapping
> out the floppy drive and/or cable. Tried getting an older floppy drive,
> then
> swapped in another cable, too. No dice.  Another proposed solution is to
> get
> a controller and have that drive the floppy. Where would I get the
> cheapest
> possible controller that does this?  I've thought about getting a
> newer/bigger drive (current one is only 20g) + controller to drive it - do
> they typically have a floppy controller on these cards?
>
> --
> Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at comcast.net
> http://sean-leblanc.blogspot.com/
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> -Walt Kelly
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