Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:12:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Message-ID: <199709260412.VAA00754@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970925235533.5204B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> from "Andrew Gordon" at Sep 26, 97 00:02:30 am
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> > 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 really. It looked like a hard drive. As I said in my other message, it's probably intentional to keep down support calls, since MS OS's (other than DOS) can't safely run binaries or swap from removable media. 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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