Aros blowing up

[MarkTime]

First, I should explain my remarks, though I didn't mean them in a provocative way.

I first tried running AROS on a P4 1.6 running the native version, but inside Virtual PC 5.2 (last connectix version)

That was slow in terms of gui responsiveness...windows were slow to redraw.

As for comparing it to the hosted version, I cannot.
Now I'm on a different machine, and its an Athlon 2000+ 384MB running the fedora core.
It has a ps/2 keyboard and a usb mouse.

I will try the suggestions and see if I can track down the problem further.

thanks for the help.

[MarkTime]

oh I just thought of something, this machine has no floppy drive.

I remember on the other machine it was constantly polling the floppy and going buzz buzz buzz.

two questions...can someone stop that buzzing, and would you consider making it the default? it has something to do with amigaos compatibility? make sure its equally annoying?
:-)

anyway, this machine has no floppy...is a floppy drive a requirement?

thanks,
Robert

[MarkTime]

I grabbed a floppy drive from an old machine, and to my amazement, it has some kind of proprietary connector...it seems to have 2 less pins than the floppy drive connector on my Athlon 2000+

amazing...well thats about as much effort as I'm putting into it.  Thanks for the help, but I'm done.

I think the aros team has done wonderful work, and of course I found it interesting, but I don't spend hour after hour not being productive trying to track down problems with alpha software....its just not my thing.

Keep up the good work, can't wait to hear about a tcp/ip stack and other advancements I am sure are coming.

--Robert

[bloodline]

MarkTime wrote:
I grabbed a floppy drive from an old machine, and to my amazement, it has some kind of proprietary connector...it seems to have 2 less pins than the floppy drive connector on my Athlon 2000+

amazing...well thats about as much effort as I'm putting into it.  Thanks for the help, but I'm done.

I think the aros team has done wonderful work, and of course I found it interesting, but I don't spend hour after hour not being productive trying to track down problems with alpha software....its just not my thing.

Keep up the good work, can't wait to hear about a tcp/ip stack and other advancements I am sure are coming.

--Robert

You don't actually need a really Floppy drive, just make sure the Floppy drive is switched on in the BIOS :-)

The trackdisk.device looks for the presence of the Floppy Drive controler rather than an actual drive.