hal forks many hald-addon-storage processes

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> According to your lshal and lshw output you've got 1 ``Virtual CDROM'' and 8
> ``Virtual Floppy'' devices.. For which hal is correctly spawning
> hald-addon-storage processes. What kind of devices are these ?

Sun Fire X4100's BIOS can take remote floppy/cdrom image files and present them 
as a local physical floppy/cdrom. That way you can boot an OS (including 
Windows) off a remote server. If David has 8 virtual floppies, I guess that's 
how the system is configured.

-Artem.