Ruffian without floppy drive

[Ling-En Kao]

>* Michal Jaegermann <michal at ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> [031231 20:07]:
>> The procedure is correct but not all milos are created equal.
>> Recently I had to deal with one UX and 2.2-18 from
>> http://www.suse.de/~stepan/binaries/
>> was not booting that machine at all.  2.2-17 from the same location
>> did work but it was refusing to load anything from a floppy (which
>> is not your concern :-) although CD and hard disk handling were fine.

I've tried 2.2-17, but it still hangs at the same location. :(

>Now that you mention it, there was something...
>Have you tried exchanging the video card? I saw curious things, i.e my
>Ruffian was not able to use the floppy drive until I used another
>graphics adapter instead of the builtin permedia2 card. That was
>basically when I decided to pull my efforts off milo ;)

Which video adapter would make Ruffian able to use the floppy drive?
I've tried the PowerStorm350, Oxygen 402, S3 ViRGE DX and S3 Trio64V+, but
none of them could make the floppy drive usable.

>> Some other one which I tried had some other quirks. 'milo' name
>> is hardwired into its loader so having few of these at the same time
>> to try that or another unfortunately is not feasible.

>This is only on Ruffian though.. Deskstation helped that machine to be
>very special in some ways.. ;)

>Best regards,
>  Stefan Reinauer

	Ling.