Text 7904, 94 rader
Skriven 2006-11-10 18:57:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
   Kommentar till text 7884 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: ttylinux
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On or about: 11-08-06  22:54, Maurice Kinal did engage James Bradley regarding,
but not limited to: ttylinux
...
 
 JB> does have three USB channels available, (along with some of the worst 
 JB> documentation I have seen,) so I suspect at least one of those 
 JB> bridges wouldn't intercept the call for an OS.

 MK> Doesn't have to as long as the main boot system can mount 
 MK> and use whatever is put on those interfaces, even a CD 
 MK> and/or DVD.

Again, with the language issue. If I have a USB memory device in a USB port, if
it has an OS in the BR or not, the board tries to boot from it, and will not
move to the next device. There is no mention of USB in my boot priority, but it
is priority #1, full stop. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. I opened the
PDF last night, and found it has 8 ports, on four (Forget what they call them.)
channels. I haven't experimented with the other three channels,
(busses/whatevers) if they are the same preemptive setup.

The kicker is, while leafing through the dox, I noticed a [F11] boot key, to
preempt the boot sequence in NVRAM. ...And no, still no mention of USB in the
grand scheme.

 MK>> Gigabyte's bios where I could hit f12 on bootup and it
 

 JB> I don't know the difference between "Plug" and "Swap".

 MK> I am not positive.  I call them all hotswap as long as it 
 MK> can be done on the fly (no reboot).
 
 JB> controllers are HW RAID, "Passive Backplane Array" type systems, so 
 JB> I'm sure they could burn my toast if I worked on 'em enough. The 
 JB> software to run the pig, is run on an M$ product, and meant to occupy 
 JB> hda1, so I toasted it after my first attempt at lilo installation 
 JB> proved fruitless.

 MK> Hm.  I haven't tried those ... yet.  I did have a sata one 
 MK> hotswapping and may have to do that again soon.  So far it 
 MK> hasn't been an issue.  IDE's still are and usb takes care 
 MK> of that at the moment.
 
Then you made me think, it may not be "Passive" as A) It does posses a device
number, B) It will allow the server to run at all times while replacing a RAID
volume. I just remembered the two letters "B" and "P" fly by on the bootup, and
forgot the order they were displayed.

 JB> Now, on to that G3 I tripped over this afternoon... O-8*

 MK> Heh, heh.  Haven't touched one of those ... yet.  I am not 
 MK> sure I really want to either.  Maybe but I doubt it.

I think they will not take the latest, greatest OS from Mac, so I may have to
sell it to the neighbour kid. Sure glad he's well employed to fuel my
experiments. <G>

A cousin, in Edmonton turned his nose up at my Uncles attempt to drop a PC on
his desk, so for $5, I'll either use it as a tire chuck, or run up to Edmonton
with it when he borrows the jack-hammer.

 MK>> Right.  It used to be Mandrake not that long ago but I 
 MK>> don't hear as much from those people much these days.  
 
 JB> Because they changed their name? <G+D>

 MK> They did?  News to me.  Who are they now?

FWLIK, it's now called Mandriva. Mandrake 10.0 was such a debacle, they
descided to roll back the version number to "One."

 MK>> No.  Microwaves are for popcorn.
 
 JB> That, and long distance, non-satellite, high bandwidth 
 JB> communications. I wonder how many relays are still done through 
 JB> microwaves across the hills between us.

 MK> There is one not too far from here on the Point.  Both the 
 MK> neighbour and I have speculated on what would be needed to 
 MK> hack into it, not that we would.  ;-)

If you could scale their tower, and hang your own homebaked transmitter and
horn off to one side... Just make 'em compact, and a different frequency, and I
doubt they'd notice.




... James

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