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["Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>]

Regarding how the SSD is accessed, according to the manual "The PCM-4862
features an internal Flash/ROM disk drive. This drive emulates a floppy disk
drive by using solid-state memory
chips". This does not seem to be true though since under DOS this drive
shows up under fdisk, which floppies don't. And if it is acting as a floppy
it doesn't seem like DOS would be able to access any more than 1.4 MB but it
sees all 8 MB of the SSD. Under linux the SSD does not show up under fdisk.
I tried mounting the seconding floppy disk a variety of ways but this did
not seem to work. Does BL even support FAT? Also is the ramdisk hda?

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Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 Floppy Version, Crashes when HD is attached


Jason Chall wrote:
>
> I am running the floppy disk version of BL3
> Everything works fine with just the floppy drive attached
> but when I attach the Hard Disk, BL crashes on boot
> Note, hard drive is large, 80 GB, and BIOS only sees it
> as 8 GB.

BasicLinux is designed for old hardware, so it is not
surprising that it is tripped up by something fairly
new, like your HD.

> anyone know if I'll be able to see the whole 80GB once
> I get BL running?

Maybe not.  I suspect the 2.2.16 kernel is unprepared
for HDs that large.

> Also when I do boot without HD, BL does not seem to
> recognize Solid State Disk though

How does the Solid State Disk connect to the system?
IDE?  USB?  PCMCIA?  If it's IDE, BL3 should autodetect
it (but you will need to mount it yourself).  If it's
PCMCIA, you will need to add a module and edit the PCMCIA
config file.  If it's USB, you are out of luck -- BL3 has
no USB capability.

Cheers,
Steven

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