John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/8/2013 9:57 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx 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).
<snip>
> 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"
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