Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:02:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Message-ID: <199709260402.VAA00183@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709260330.NAA00484@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 26, 97 01:00:48 pm
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> So how do you explain the IDE emulation mode on the older models? Any > why the *^&%(*& did they discontinue it? Cheaper manufacturing for the daughterboard, I'm betting. And/or the people who are including them in their new machines don't want them bootable or swappable because of the Windows 95 bugs with removable media (the TSD for removable media devices silently corrupts pages obtained from it when FS_ReadWrite is called with R0_SWAPPER_CALL; you can't install most software from it if it runs from or opens a DLL on the device -- most InstallShield based installs have to). Bet you didn't know *that* dirty little secret... Luckily, miniport drivers can be written to be portable between NT and 95, so NT has the bug too. 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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