Floppies for ALPHA

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Thu Jul 31 02:35:23 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:24:18AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> > IIRC have multias pcmcia slots.
> > Can they boot from flash media?
> 
> Not that's I've been able to get it to do; it has one slot, but
> bootability is a firmware thing.

Did you tried with JEDEC or IDE flash?
The interesting one is IDE type flash, because JEDEC is expensive
compared to CF+adapter and JEDEC is rather small in capacity.

Btw. is the pcmcia slot usable under FreeBSD?

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