From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 08:22:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA21968 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA21946 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA04359 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:49:45 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709251519.AAA04359@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:49:43 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just to bring some continuity to this story; last week I arranged a loan drive, with which to experiment. After some fruitless initial tinkering, I sent it back as faulty. The replacement arrived today, and it exhibits the same basic behaviour; ie. it no longer looks like an IDE disk at all. It _does_ respond to the ATAPI probe, however they appear to have removed the IDE emulation in current models. This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is a royal pain. It'd still be good if someone were to come forward and offer to add the necessary ATAPI support, of course. 8) mike