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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

The ramdisk is /dev/ram0 and /dev/ram1 in BL3, and in BL2 I think you only 
get the second ram1 if you have enough RAM (12MB).

BL reads 16bit DOS (FAT) hard drives as msdos filesystem.

I am learning to use an internal IDE zip drive and it shows up in DOS as 
another drive letter.  I was told it is being emulated as a floppy disk. I 
have not got it working yet in linux but I think it is supposed to show up 
as the fourth partition (!) of a scsi hard disk sga4.  (Both DOS and linux 
are doing scsi emulation for some reason).  DOS and linux don't 
necessarily treat zip drives or flash drives the same way.

I will take a look at the zip drive with DOS fdisk.

Floppy disks can be larger than 1.4MB.  I have heard of 2.88MB.

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jason Chall wrote:

> 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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