Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:29:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath Message-ID: <199709251729.TAA24502@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199709251519.AAA04359@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 26, 97 00:49:43 am"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
>
> 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.
Does it behave like an ATAPI device ?? Or is it some kind of proprietary
protocol ??
> 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)
Shouldn't be too difficult, IF it follows the ATAPI protocol...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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