[PLUG] SATA II, mdadm and soft power off

Jason Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Sun May 13 17:44:32 UTC 2007


On 5/13/07, Russell Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> wrote:
> m0gely wrote:
> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> I'm amazed that Abit evidently thinks their motherboards are used in
> >> computers that have floppy drives.
> >
> > Pretty much all boards do, it's not just ABIT.  There may be one or
> > two out there, but you have to do offline BIOS updates somehow.  You
> > could probably make a DOS bootable CD with the BIOS update on it and
> > do it from there too.  You won't be able to backup the old BIOS,
> > though most don't anyway.
> >
> Usually, a USB thumb drive will work as well.

Indeed, most modern systems will boot from USB mass storage (and even
emulate a floppy device), so it is handy to keep a bootable USB drive
around with syslinux and a couple different boot options, including
DOS.  It is a little tricky to get set up at first, but you pretty
much just have to do it once.

Jason



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