New IBM PS/2 40sx Feature

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From: kraai4712
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:33

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Hi netters!  Last night I was working on somebody's machine and rebooted it. 
It started up fine, but when I tried to insert a diskette into the A: drive, I
found that there was a diskette already there.

Naturally I assumed that it had some sort of boot-through software on it, but
found that not only was it a newly formatted diskette, but the PC would boot
with _any_ 3 1/2" diskette in the drive.

Stats:  IBM PS/2 40sx w/ 80M hard drive, 1.44M floppy

Upon bootup the PC would try to read the diskette three times and then go ahead
and boot from the hard drive.  I looked through my technical specs on this
machine and other PS/2s but could find no reference to this behavior.  Could
someone point me to where this is documented.  Thanks all.

jim

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Subject: New IBM PS/2 40sx Feature
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Date: 6 Jan 93 08:33:51 -0600
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