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by **eh..** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Greetings,

I recently bought a Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 off of Egghead's
auction site. It's an fabulously kewl machine, by the way...

Out of the box, it boots off a 16Meg flash disk. You can interrupt the
normal boot process and boot from a real hard drive, at least that is
what the menu option says.

I have added a CDROM drive and a hard drive to the box, and I was
hoping to retain the 16Meg flash drive and optionally be able to boot
off the hard drive using that boot up menu option. Unfortunately, the
docs do not specify how it is supposed to be set up. I've tried
probably every combination of master, slave, single, cable select,
different IDE channels, etc, but I cannot get this to work. It doesn't
seem to help much that the flash drive's master/slave jumper settings
seem to be labeled incorrectly. When it is on Slave, it gets detected
as a Master drive...

When both drives are detected by the BIOS, nothing boots.

Could it be the cable? I'm using a 40-pin IDE cable that is labeled as
'XL' because on a normal length IDE cable, there isn't enough space
between the master and slave connectors to be able to connect a hard
drive and the flash drive on the same IDE channel. The flash drive was
originally connected with a short 40-pin IDE cable with only one drive
connector.

Has anyone ever got this to work? I really would like to be able to use
the Flash Drive.

-ehobz

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by **b..** » Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:58:42

What's the point of booting off from the flash drive if you have a hard
disk installed? Just dual boot a regular linux distro off the hard disk.
The version of Netscape on the Scovery's flash drive is out of date and
other than that all you have on the machine that is of any use is the
ash shell.

Remove the 16MB flash drive and use it to build a LRP router.

-bret

>Greetings,

>I recently bought a Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 off of Egghead's
>auction site. It's an fabulously kewl machine, by the way...

>Out of the box, it boots off a 16Meg flash disk. You can interrupt the
>normal boot process and boot from a real hard drive, at least that is
>what the menu option says.

>I have added a CDROM drive and a hard drive to the box, and I was
>hoping to retain the 16Meg flash drive and optionally be able to boot
>off the hard drive using that boot up menu option. Unfortunately, the
>docs do not specify how it is supposed to be set up. I've tried
>probably every combination of master, slave, single, cable select,
>different IDE channels, etc, but I cannot get this to work. It doesn't
>seem to help much that the flash drive's master/slave jumper settings
>seem to be labeled incorrectly. When it is on Slave, it gets detected
>as a Master drive...

>When both drives are detected by the BIOS, nothing boots.

>Could it be the cable? I'm using a 40-pin IDE cable that is labeled as
>'XL' because on a normal length IDE cable, there isn't enough space
>between the master and slave connectors to be able to connect a hard
>drive and the flash drive on the same IDE channel. The flash drive was
>originally connected with a short 40-pin IDE cable with only one drive
>connector.

>Has anyone ever got this to work? I really would like to be able to use
>the Flash Drive.

>-ehobz

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>Before you buy.

by **eh..** » Wed, 01 Nov 2000 02:03:05

Why use the Flash Drive? There are times when I would like to quickly
check something on the Internet, but don't want to deal with booting
Linux (BTW, I do have Linux 2.2.17 installed on the HD), logging in,
shutting down properly and all that jazz. Yeah, the version of
Netscape is old, but using the flash drive is quick and simple.

Honestly, most of the time, the machine will be booted of the HD, so
it's not a big deal. I would just like to use the flash drive for
something rather than having it just sitting there. As for the LRP
box, I've already got a separate PC doing my routing and firewalling
using GNATbox Light. Perhaps not as potentially useful and flexible as
the LRP, but it does what I need it to do and does it well. But I
digress...

Thanks, tho'.

--ehobz

> What's the point of booting off from the flash drive if you have a
hard
> disk installed? Just dual boot a regular linux distro off the hard
disk.
> The version of Netscape on the Scovery's flash drive is out of date
and
> other than that all you have on the machine that is of any use is the
> ash shell.

> Remove the 16MB flash drive and use it to build a LRP router.

> -bret

> >Greetings,

> >I recently bought a Fujitsu/Siemens Scovery 211 off of Egghead's
> >auction site. It's an fabulously kewl machine, by the way...

> >Out of the box, it boots off a 16Meg flash disk. You can interrupt
the
> >normal boot process and boot from a real hard drive, at least that is
> >what the menu option says.

> >I have added a CDROM drive and a hard drive to the box, and I was
> >hoping to retain the 16Meg flash drive and optionally be able to boot
> >off the hard drive using that boot up menu option

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