Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:02:43 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Message-ID: <199709260332.NAA00500@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:02:30 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970925235533.5204B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. > > > > This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is > > a royal pain. > > Does it look enough like an ATAPI CD drive that a BIOS with boot-from-CD > support would attempt to boot it? Not enough for the AMI BIOS at any rate; it complains that it's "Atapi incompatible", which I think means "it's not a CDROM". mike
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