[iyonix-support] Re: Formatting hard drive

  • From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:38:36 +0200

In message <bd78ac2352.Andrew-Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <f7b0262352.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  on 16 Oct 2011 george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>      - or from a USB memory stick (requiring an operational USB
>>      driver - is the USB driver in ROM under 5.16?).

> Under 5.16 ROMModules lists *help rommodules

>  24 System ROM  USBDriver               0.47    Active
>  25 System ROM  EHCIDriver              0.14    Active
>  26 System ROM  OHCIDriver              0.29    Active

> So, yes USB is in ROM

USB is, but not support for USB mass storage devices. The latter is 
provided by softloaded modules (SCSISoftUSB and a few others). So, 
that means that if you restart your machine without !Boot present you 
will not be able to access USB sticks or USB hard discs.

Martin
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