Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:30:42 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: atapi.flp problem SOLVED! Message-ID: <12392.815121042@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Oct 1995 18:58:36 EST." <199510302358.SAA04517@spooky.rwwa.com>
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Well, I've followed Jake's suggestion for the second rev of the 951026-SNAP floppy.. Could you try this one and let me know if it's better/worse? Jordan > > I finally figured out why the atapi.flp images you've made don't work! > > Basically, you can't have a "disk wd? at wdc? drive ?" line on the > > controller where your CD-ROM is located or the probing code will ONLY > > check for a hard drive, and not a CD-ROM drive at this location. > > If this is true, I don't understand how the SNAP floppy finds > the CDROM on one system of mine and not another, given that they > both have the CDROM on the secondary controller. > > To recap: > > The SNAP floppy fails to probe the Toshiba CDROM on a pentium > system, and succeeds probing a Sony CDROM on a 486. Seems > like it could be the CDROM, the bios, timing, or anything. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM > R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA >
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