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    Booting from USB floppy

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by psychocandy, Jan 4, 2008.

  1. psychocandy

    psychocandy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Got a Panasonic Toughbook (CF-M34) that, occasionally, I want to boot
    from a USB attached floppy drive (to do Ghost restores).

    I've got a TEAC USB floppy drive that works great, but also a Sony one
    which isnt even recognised during boot.

    Any ideas?
     
    psychocandy, Jan 4, 2008
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  2. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    Psycho... Welcome to the forums! I think you'll find someone who can/will come along to help you out for sure.

    Teac is used by Panasonic in some of their set-ups so it most likely is set to Master. The Sony is probably set to Cable Select and, as a result, is not seen by the BIOS.

    Just a guess...
     
    Toughbook, Jan 5, 2008
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  3. psychocandy

    psychocandy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the welcome...

    Yes - I was aware that Panasonic and TEAC are linked somehow and I thought that might be why the TEACs work.

    Is there any way to check/change the settings of these floppy drives? I'm guessing its not as easy as setting a jumper like you would on an internal hard drive?
     
    psychocandy, Jan 7, 2008
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  4. inspectorgene

    inspectorgene Notebook Consultant

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    I don't know if you have found the answer to your question yet, but I don't think you can boot from a usb floppy.

    Panny has a external floppy cf-vfdu01 that I had to buy seperately for my CF-17 in order to re-install the OS.

    HTH
     
    inspectorgene, Jan 25, 2008
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  5. tough-2-go

    tough-2-go Notebook Deity

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    The PIII 400MHZ or MKII will support USB floppy boot and the PIII700MHZ and later units will suport both USB floppy and USB CD-ROM boot. The Teac floppy is the one that seems to work best. The CF-17/CF-M34 MK1 Celerons only can boot with the CF-VFDU01 and requires a port replicator.
     
    tough-2-go, Jan 25, 2008
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