From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 9 16:05:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA27448 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:05:08 -0700 Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA27443 ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:05:06 -0700 Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0t2RFi-0009YOC; Mon, 9 Oct 95 16:04 PDT Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: Angelo Turetta cc: freebsd-hackers , jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. In-Reply-To: <3079941B@trust.stylo.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Angelo Turetta wrote: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > I'd appreciate even *one* success report, folks! As it stands now, > > without more feedback I'm just going to drop the idea. I haven't > > heard *one* successful probe report, not one! :( > > The ATAPI floppy worked for me. > Well, actually, let's say it didn't work worse than in 2.0.5R :-) I guess I'll have to keep trying. I promise to resup and try to build my own ATAPI boot floppy soon, perhaps it will work better if I build it myself? At any rate, I'll keep you posted if I get something better together. > I've three major concerns about ATAPI CD-ROM support: > > 2) It's not possible to use the IDE CD-ROM as the secondary > device on the IDE BUS if the master device is not present: > I know this is conceptually right, but the CD-ROMs ship > jumpered as slave by default, and often they come with an > additional secondary IDE controller on which they are the > only device. I know it hurts, but all flavours of Windows support > this configuration. I've tried to hack myself the driver, but I > concluded the job is not in my capabilities :-( (basically, > don't know enough FBSD & ATAPI internals: in fact, > I gave up when I started experiencing strange lock-ups, > but I hadn't still figured out point 1) ....) Good point. Note that all flavors of Windows only have to support IDE CD-ROM when you explicity tell it you have one, that's why they can be more aggressive with the probing (especially since you need a special driver to support hard drives on the second controller in Windoze, unlike FreeBSD). --- Jake Hamby