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- From: zzaascd@hpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Config says there's a floppy drive
- Message-ID: <6699@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:36:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov03.025610.15639@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Reply-To: colin@manchester.ac.uk
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept Manchester University
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- In article <1992Nov03.025610.15639@edsi.plexus.COM>, chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
- |>
- |> I started doing our 5500 upgrades over a year ago and have noticed one
- |> thing on every machine I've done. When you EX CONFIG and tell it what
- |> you have and what you don't have it always comes up and says there is a
- |> floppy drive on the system (FLP7 ?). If you run through the
- |> configuration again and explicitly state that there is no floppy drive
- |> it will still say there is one. HP/Apollo acknowledges that they
- |> have a bug, but is it in the ROMs? Is it in CONFIG? What didn't they
- |> ever fix this problem? Does anyone know of any harmful side effects
- |> that can become of it?
-
- I would be very surprised if there were any harmful effects of this bug.
- I have never noticed *any* high-level effect arising from the configuration
- set with CONFIG. I have used systems with this information set completely
- haywire, but nothing seemed to care. *Does* anything actually use this
- information?
-
- Colin
-