Subject: Re: Suggestion
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/01/2001 02:23:25
from <wojtek@3miasto.net>:

> don't expect from my pentium to have floppy :)
> it would waste one 3.5" bay!

If no floppy, what do you use instead, for removable-media bootable drive and
for removable-media storage?  I'm looking for a new computer and trying what to
use for removable media (LS-120, Zip, Jaz, CD-RW, other).  I'll probably need a
3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive, so LS-120 could take that space and still read/write
traditional 3.5" floppies.

Present computer is not currently NetBSD-capable with hard disks no longer
accessible (either the hard disks, cable or controller gone bad).  All I have
now working is 3.5" 1.44 MB drive, Iomega Zip 250 & Texel internal 2x CD-ROM on
Trantor T130B SCSI, and DR-DOS 7.03, and I suspect the bootable 3.5" floppy
connection is about as stable as elements on the bottom of the periodic table.
Trantor T130B SCSI is apparently not bootable even with the SCSI BIOS enabled.