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Re: Just my 2 penny worth..

To: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Just my 2 penny worth..
From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@tubul.dascon.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:36:03 +0200
Cc: Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>, mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-reply-to: <199806231352.OAA12236@euclid.earth.ox.ac.uk>; from Stephen Usher on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:52:23PM +0100
References: <358F9556.FF85CE8E@email.mot.com> <199806231352.OAA12236@euclid.earth.ox.ac.uk>

On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:52:23PM +0100, Stephen Usher wrote:
> >What do you do with people who have proprietary hardware which *needs*
> >these drivers? CD ROMs on cartridge ports? ZIP drives on cartridge
> >ports? SCSI hardware connected to a PC card in the Milan?
> 
> Fine.. integrate loadable drivers for them.. 

Great. Then how do I boot from a SCSI disk that needs a loadable driver to
load the driver? Boot from floppy?  
(that is - if the floppy controller used on the machine is supported without
a loadable driver. Hades and Milan are not WD1772-compatible).

This doesn't sound like a nice, clean concept to me.

cu
Michael
-- 
Michael Schwingen, Ahornstrasse 36, 52074 Aachen

References:
- Re: Just my 2 penny worth..
  - From: Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>
- Re: Just my 2 penny worth..
  - From: Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>

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