John R Pierce wrote:
On 4/8/2013 9:57 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
OH! I thought, since the m/b is from '05 or '06, that it would detect the floppy drives, but*that* I need to look at. Thanks!
the floppy interface was really low level. all parallel signals, like select drive, step, direction, head select, serial data, clock, write enable, and a status line for home, and index (the hole in the disk that said its at sector 0).
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drive. so the BIOS's pretty much stopped doing the auto-home-and-detect thing early on when floppies became optional because it was /so/ slow and added significant time to POST. and even
<snip> But post, if memory check is enabled, *does* take a long time... oh, that's right, that was on the server with ->256G<-....
mark "and my mind SEGV's whenever I say that"