[Gllug] floppy disc access

[Mark Preston]

   George F. Saxby wrote:-
<SNIP>
   er silly questions :-
   does the BIOS see the floppy disk?
   Is the floppy disc activated at boot up switched on in the BIOS?
</SNIP>

Not a silly question, I think you might be onto something George.
The curious thing (amongst other things) is that this Compaq Deskpro
in question no longer allows me to access the BIOS settings on bootup.
There does seem to be a precedent for this.

http://www.daemonnews.org/200010/adventure.html
<QUOTE>
   Before I installed FreeBSD on the Compaq, I remember being able to
access the BIOS by hitting F10 at boot up but now, that function had
disappeared. I tried rebooting my machine and hitting F10 and every
other combination of special function keys but couldn't get into the
BIOS as I'd done before the installation.
</QUOTE>

Thanks to Steve and Chris for their replies as well.

I'm pretty sure I swapped the floppy (originally 1st) with the cdrom
(originally 3rd) on the start-up sequence for booting, so I may have
some trouble sorting this out :-).


Regards,
Mark Preston

Earlier today I wrote:-
  > I have recently installed Mandrake 9.0 rc3 onto some old hardware, and
  > everything is working except the floppy disk. It doesn't show up...



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