HD maker makes a Linux HD

[Garrett Goebel]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2004 06:43 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> 
> > BUT, I have only done it w/ DamnSmall and with a boot floppy that 
> > hands off to the USB stick.  My old stuff won't boot to USB on its 
> > own.  Just like some CD-ROM drives won't boot an OS, older hardware is 
> > not able to boot to USB.  One year old stuff can though.
> 
> It depends on the BIOS.  Some of the boarderline stuff can
> be persuaded to boot to newer devices given a flash upgrade.

Legacy floppy emulation depends on BIOS.

Booting a USB drive as an ATA device requires hardware support.

I've forgotten exactly what controller, but I remember talking to Toshiba
and asking if it would be possible to add support with a flash upgrade, and
the answer was no, the hardware didn't support it. And this on a less than 6
month old laptop.

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