From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Toshiba Tecra 720 (notebook)
From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:50:59 +0900
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Thanks Russ.

I' d have been home now.  :-)

> I'd worry more about the VGA,
>which looks like it should work.

Yeah, I'm now in the office just because of this reason.
I'm using hiqvideo driver for this machine, which works partially. :-)
I can run rio only VGA mode.  When I tried 1024x768, it shows acme
windows but not clearly.  There is many noises, and finally it desappears.
I have to read this source from now.  To check graphic chips, we need
another machine to recover from its failure. :-)

I suppose Toshiba (probably also other companies such as NEC etc.) sells 
different models in Japan or in US or Europe.
Then, my Tecra 720CT is not the same as that in your country, particularly
FDD drive.  Once upon a time, the 5" 2HD format was a defact standard
also for 3.5" floppy drive, because NEC used it for their major PC.
After PC got its status also in Japan, we have two kinds of 2HD format
in 3.5" FD drive, one is from 5" 2HD (1.2MB) and the other is from IBM
PC (1.4MB).  I'll check linux sources around this, although I have only
Linux for sparc in home. :-)

Kenji