Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Angelo Turetta <turetta@trust.stylo.it> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.951009160213.4085A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <3079941B@trust.stylo.it>
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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
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