[wellylug] USB FDD and BIOS update

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Sat Oct 15 15:04:10 NZDT 2005


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> I suppose if I think about it it makes some sense ...  IDE and Floppy
> ports are pretty standard (at least compared to USB).  Something happening
> on the USB port in the middle of the flashing could makes things go bye
> byes, so killing the USB ports before the flashing is a 'good idea'.

Or if the flashing software was actually well written in the first place, 
it would load everything it needed into RAM first anyway, and then it 
wouldn't matter how you got it there.

-- 
David.




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