Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:29:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Message-ID: <199709251729.TAA24502@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199709251519.AAA04359@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 26, 97 00:49:43 am"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote: > > Just to bring some continuity to this story; last week I arranged a > loan drive, with which to experiment. After some fruitless initial > tinkering, I sent it back as faulty. > > The replacement arrived today, and it exhibits the same basic > behaviour; ie. it no longer looks like an IDE disk at all. It _does_ > respond to the ATAPI probe, however they appear to have removed the IDE > emulation in current models. Does it behave like an ATAPI device ?? Or is it some kind of proprietary protocol ?? > This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is > a royal pain. > > It'd still be good if someone were to come forward and offer to add the > necessary ATAPI support, of course. 8) Shouldn't be too difficult, IF it follows the ATAPI protocol... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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