From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 10 03:52:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA28103 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 03:52:55 -0700 Received: from unix.stylo.it (ppp.stylo.italia.com [194.20.23.167]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA28098 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 03:52:44 -0700 Received: from trust.stylo.it (trust.stylo.it [194.20.21.30]) by unix.stylo.it (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA06286; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:35:17 +0100 Received: by trust.stylo.it with NT SMTP Gateway ver 31 id <307A3EBC@trust.stylo.it>; Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:37:00 W From: Angelo Turetta To: jehamby Cc: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:46:00 W Message-ID: <307A3EBC@trust.stylo.it> Encoding: 22 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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: > > 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). Window NT & Windows 95 come with integrated support for secondary IDE controller & ATAPI CD-ROM. Of course, you cannot boot from a partition on the secondary bus, but I can add or remove hard disks and it automatically use them. >--- Jake Hamby Angelo Turetta