From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 10 11:33:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA29255 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:33:12 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA29245 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:33:09 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA10785; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:29:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510101829.LAA10785@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. To: turetta@trust.stylo.it (Angelo Turetta) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:29:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: jehamby@covina.lightside.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <307A3EBC@trust.stylo.it> from "Angelo Turetta" at Oct 10, 95 11:46:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 945 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. 1) Win95 asks if you have a CDROM. If you say yes and it doesn't see one, it gets aggressive on its probes. WE could do the same, but it is not acceptable to be aggressive this way without asking first. 2) Win95 will automatically see the device, but it will incorrectly fill out the drive ID on drives after 0x81 with 0x00 in the IOS control structure associated with the device. I'm still looking for a way to get this information, but it seems symptomatic of multiple controllers with a single BIOS. So Win95 won't handle them quite correctly either. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.