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- Hans Bogaards writes:
- > My question is now, why can't linux find the second floppy drive and is it
- > possible to do it this way (maybe with a changed kernel or root-disk or with
- > other kernel options)
-
- RiscOS is a bit sneeky when it boots up - if you have 1 drive configured, it
- checks each physical drive position starting at zero to find the drive. If
- you have two, then they can be in positions 1 and 3 for example.
-
- However, Linux *expects* then to be configured so that drive 0 is position 0,
- drive 1 is position 1 etc, where:
-
- position 0 = slot 0 drive 0
- position 1 = slot 0 drive 1
- position 2 = slot 1 drive 0
- position 3 = slot 1 drive 1
-
- Unfortunately, the Linux floppy driver as it stands (it's getting to be rather
- unmaintainable and is due for a re-write soon) is not able to perform the
- detection of the drive position, and as such, they must be configured correctly.
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