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Re: Running Linux from external Jaz via PCMCIA



> According to the documentation that comes with the Adaptec
> PCMCIA SCSI card, the PCMCIA spec does NOT support bootable
> devices, period.  In other words, regardless of what you've
> got hanging off your PCMCIA device, it ain't gonna boot.  No,
> I don't know the specifics; perhaps checking on Adaptec's web
> site (is there a PCMCIA newsgroup?) might help.

He wouldn't be booting from PCMCIA.  He would boot from HD or floppy,
then mount the PCMCIA SCSI device after the drivers are loaded.

Dave.

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Dave Ahn,  ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu     "When you were born you cried, and the
                                         world rejoiced.  Try to live your life
Medical Visualization Lab, Radiology,    so that when you die you will rejoice,
Bowman Gray School of Medicine           and the world will cry."  -1/2 jj^2