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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Bootable tapes: Date: 19 Feb 1995 08:49:43 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3i70n7$t2t@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950217120424.24130E-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> <3i5qv7$drn@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> wrote: >] >] Does anyone know of a controller/tape combo with which I can make >] bootable tapes for PCs? This abiliy would be a great asset for me. > >The limitation is in the BIOS. > >Adaptec allows for booting from the first SCSI device in their BIOS; >I don't know if it includes tapes, but it does include CDROM. Wouldn't it be possible to take the stage 1 boot from the floppy (to get you to the : prompt) and then give it the tape device at the prompt? cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.